Thankful Thursday # 6

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

~ Henry David Thoreau

With thanks to Iris over at Sting My Heart for hosting Thankful Thursdays--and encouraging women all over the blogosphere to be grateful.

I saw two double rainbows this week--on two separate days. Both times, they disappeared into grey clouds only to reappear again. And both times, I tried to capture the sight with my camera, with little success. You have to be at just the right angle to get a good photo of a rainbow.

There's a life lesson there.

There were some difficult times this past week. Grey clouds.

But God always provided rainbows during those times--reasons to be thankful. I just had to be looking for them.

This week I am thankful for:

• my friend, Tiffany, over at Tea with Tiffany, who encouraged me to become a part of Thankful Thursday. She was right--this is a good, good community to be a part of.

• my "running partner" husband, Rob. The fact that I can even call him my running partner is amazing. He's encouraged this oh-so-beginning runner to keep on through cold and wind--and that's in July in Colorado!

• my family--my grown children and my caboose kiddo. That whole "through thick and thin" idea? We live that out with one another.

• the just-too-trendy box of clothes my younger sister sent to my 7-year-old. The entire time we unpacked it, Christa jumped up and and down and started sorting out which outfits to where when.

• an early to bed night finally!!

• the reminder that in oh-so-many ways, I am living my dreams. I found my true love. I have wonderful kiddos. I'm writing and I'm published.

• the constant truth that God's mercies are new every morning and His faithfulness is great and that He lavishes His grace on me.