Check out the 2013 challenge – giving thanks for 39 things every week this year. Here are my first 39. (So that’s 1974 to go.)

I’m grateful for:

1. Rain
2. Beach sand
3. New stationery
4. Afternoon naps
5. Chris Tomlin
6. Peanut butter and syrup sandwiches on holiday
7. Laminated things
8. Whatsapp groups
9. Our Nespresso machine
10. Garden hoses
11. Verses that start with, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says…’
12. Moss on the driveway
13. The smell of fresh paint
14. Jamie Oliver
15. Downton Abbey
16. Friends who stop by and say, ‘Ja for sure, we’ve got time for a quick cup of tea…’
17. Tea
18. Being totally relaxed and relieved and unedited with my peeps
19. Control-Z
20. Shae leading worship
21. Cameron’s freckles
22. Scott’s blonde curls
23. Youtube clips that make me cry
24. Tea light candles
25. Kids who wave at the car behind them from their mom’s backseat
26. The work of Ikhaya Lethu
27. Bed
28. Trail running
29. A breeze through an open door
30. How my sisters finish my sen– exactly.
31. JESUS
32. That moment the plane takes off and you kind of sink deliciously into your seat
33. Shiny things
34. Blank pages
35. The thrill and wonder on Scott’s face when he has hidden something or discovered something
36. Babysitters
37. Thunder
38. Shady roads
39. A new year

Who do you need to thank? Today? Don’t put it off. Let it be worship.

‘Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God’.  (Philippians 1:3)