Thankful day 10

Star Light

Star Bright

First Star I see tonight.

I wish I may,

I wish I might,

Have the wish I wish tonight.

I was sitting at the football game the other night when the first star came out. It was beautiful. When I saw it, the first thing that popped into my mind was the star light wishing poem. I silently finished and made my wish before the next star came out, and then laughed at myself for such childish silliness. As if a star could give me what I wished for.

I substituted in an English 11 class on Friday. They were reading Huckleberry Finn. We read the chapter where Huck was learning about God and prayer and all you had to do was ask for what you wanted and God would give it to you. Huck got disgusted because no matter how hard he prayed, he didn't get what he asked for. So he quit praying.

Today I am grateful for prayer. I am grateful that it is not just wishful thinking and hoping and wishing on a star. I am grateful that I can kneel down and pour out my troubled heart and know that there is someone listening. Someone that cares. Someone that loves me.

I am thankful that I can kneel down and ask for help for those things that I do not understand or help for those things are hard to do, or just the patience to get through what ever I need to do. I am thankful that I can also just say "thank-you" for all the things that I have been given. I have so much and take most of it for granted and too often forget to say thank-you.

I am most thankful that I am able to pray the prayers of repentance and ask for forgiveness for the many things that I do or don't do on a daily basis. These are the times that I am most thankful that I know these prayers are heard and answered.

So even though I know that if I am outside when the first star comes out I will probably say a little rhyme in my head and make a wish, I will go inside, kneel down and thank my Father in Heaven that He is there and hears me.

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Indeed.