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Five Minute Friday

November 23, 2012 by Gindi 7 Comments

Because of Thanksgiving weekend, I’m taking a break from our Friday bible study to participate in Lisa Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday.  Today’s topic is “Thank You” and I’m only allowed to write for five minutes on the topic without editing so forgive grammatical mishaps:

Thank you.  We’re teaching our three three year olds to use those words liberally.  Preceded by please and concluding with you’re welcome.

But thank you is something deeper than simple manners for toddlers to implement early in life.  Thank you is bigger.  Sometimes the simple words are adequate to express your emotion – those days when you offer thanks to someone for opening the door or for giving you a crystal vase for your wedding.

But so many times it’s not nearly enough.  How is it that we haven’t come up with something bigger and wider and more expressive than thank you?  Did thank you adequately cover the depths of my emotion when the NICU nurse brought our wee one back from the brink on Day 3?  Did thank you adequately capture my heart when my husband slept on hospital couches just to be next to me when the tumor was cut out that first year and when the babies were born than second year?  Can thank you define my overflowing cup when I cried out to God my gratitude over finding out I would be a mother after years of trying and this time to not one but three?  Does thank you express the limitless love and appreciation I felt for friends and co-workers attending funerals and wedding, bringing food and doing laundry, gathering to pray on their knees for what lie ahead of me?

I love the word.  I love the ring.  But I wish I had more than just those two words to offer the untold number of people in my life, in my family’s life, that have gotten us through divorce, poverty, school, graduations, weddings, funerals, births, losses, moves, and big decisions.

Stop.

 

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  1. Janmary, N Ireland says

    November 23, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    Thank YOU for sharing – yes, the words are not enough to express gratitude for so much we have been blessed with.

    Reply
    • Gindi says

      November 25, 2012 at 1:14 pm

      Thanks Janmary – I’m always amazed at how generous God is.

      Reply
  2. richelle @ "our wright"-ing pad says

    November 23, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    We start teaching our little ones to say please, thank you, you’re welcome and i’m sorry very early, too!

    glad you joined 5MF this Friday. I enjoyed what you shared today!

    Reply
    • Gindi says

      November 25, 2012 at 1:16 pm

      Richelle, I think it takes an early start, hopefully they will all have it sink in and now what being appreciative is.

      Reply
  3. Barbie says

    November 23, 2012 at 9:55 pm

    I was so thankful to have found your blog through the Five Minute Friday. I enjoyed reading your testimony of your precious children. How can thank you describe the many blessings we’ve received? I am your newest follower and look forward to getting to know you more!

    Reply
    • Gindi says

      November 25, 2012 at 1:15 pm

      Thanks Barbie! It’s so true, and I’m so grateful at how generous God is.

      Reply

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