{"id":5409,"date":"2015-09-15T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2015-09-15T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:19:58","slug":"a-grateful-heart-day-thankful-for-those-who-just-show-up-and-for-a-god-who-never-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=5409","title":{"rendered":"A Grateful Heart Day – Thankful for Those Who Just Show Up – and for a God Who Never Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been writing all my life. Keeping a journal has been a source of joy and sanity for many of those years. Once when we were overseas, I was encouraged to keep a Joy List – a list of the simple things that just gave me joy. It’s still a joy to add to that list as I experience more of God’s kindnesses in His creation – people and places, stuff and such.<\/p>\n

This is going to be quick. In a few minutes, I head to the airport to visit my Dad. He is such a delight to me…even with Alzheimer’s, he’s funny and thus far still loves life and family and food. He still prays which is a blessing to him, I’m sure, and to all of us.\"Papa<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyway, I want to come back to this topic another day. For now, for you who show up for each other, what a joy you are! How grateful I am for you – in my life and in the lives of those I love. You may think it a small thing, a usual thing, but it’s not.<\/p>\n

Marilyn Gardner wrote on this topic<\/a> in her blog, and I found it this morning while\u00a0researching the phrase “just showing up”. She expressed it so well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world is not changed<\/span><\/u><\/a> through one momentous event, it is changed through the often boring, simple acts of obedience that I am daily called to. it is changed by\u00a0showing up.\u201d<\/em> – Marilyn Gardner<\/p>\n

I also want to recommend a book by Kara Tippetts entitled Just Show Up<\/strong> (see link below). She wrote this with a friend, Jill Lynn Buteyn, who, with others, “showed up” as Kara was living with cancer. She is with the Lord now but has left such a beautiful legacy in her life and writing.<\/p>\n

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“Today I want to show up. I want to\u00a0be fully present. It\u2019s in showing up that I\u00a0learn more of the faithfulness of the God who shows up.\u00a0” – <\/strong><\/em>Marilyn Gardner<\/p>\n

It’s About Showing Up<\/em> – Communicating Across Boundaries – Marilyn Gardner<\/a><\/p>\n

Just Show Up<\/em><\/a> by Kara Tippetts and Jill Lynn Buteyn & Other Books by Kara<\/a><\/p>\n

10 Biblical Proofs that God Will Never Leave You or Forsake You<\/a><\/p>\n

Just Show Up – James Altucher<\/a><\/p>\n

“Inspiration Is for Amateurs – The Rest of Us Just Show Up and Get to Work”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been writing all my life. Keeping a journal has been a source of joy and sanity for many of those years. Once when we were overseas, I was encouraged to keep a Joy List – a list of the simple things that just gave me joy. It’s still a joy to add to that … Continue reading A Grateful Heart Day – Thankful for Those Who Just Show Up – and for a God Who Never Leaves<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[810,926,690,1229,1447,34,1070,1241,1705,1618,794,147,1265,50,903,33,18,1262,317,263,337,870,719,761,789,887,1456,610,1002,946,991],"tags":[1416,1115,812,2037,2039,2041,2038,949,998,2040,612,4],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-good-gifts","category-attending-or-focus","category-babies-children","category-beauty-of-gods-creation","category-bible","category-books","category-cancer","category-contentment","category-conversations","category-courage","category-faithfulness","category-family-2","category-friends","category-god","category-grace","category-inspired","category-jesus","category-kindness-of-strangers","category-lessons-learned","category-lives-full-of-god","category-marriage-2","category-neighbors","category-reconciliationforgiveness","category-redeeming-restoring","category-relationships","category-remembering","category-steadfast-love","category-thanksgiving-or-gratefulness","category-transformational","category-worship","category-writing","tag-alzheimers","tag-faithful-god","tag-grateful-heart","tag-jill-lynn-buteyn","tag-journaling","tag-joy-list","tag-just-show-up","tag-kara-tippetts","tag-marilyn-gardner","tag-memory","tag-thankful","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pauPAB-1pf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}