A Basket of Thankfulness – Results!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, Everyone!! I hope you are all having a blessed day so far.

I Love Thanksgiving, and I’m excited to share the RESULTS of the Basket of Thankfulness activity with you!!

 

 

This year, the TOTAL number of things we came up with to be thankful for is…

 

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

♥

~

 

150 Things we are Thankful For!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

Can you believe it!? I loved getting in all of your amazing comments saying the things you are thankful for. Last Year we got about 55 things. So this year the number almost tripled! Thank you so much to everyone who participated and shared!

 

And NOW for the great big Basket of Thankfulness list!!

Please note that I took out repeats, so if you don’t see the exact thing you said, it should be somewhere else on the list.

After the list, I’ll share all of the contributors! Here we go!

 

1. The Gospel!
2. Light
3. Creativity
4. People being unique
5. Our freedoms
6. The moon
7. The total solar eclipse
8. Smiling and others smiling back
9. Jesus
10. The sky
11. Art
12. Eyes
13. People
14. Water
15. Purpose
16. Cold weather
17. Road trips
18. My family
19. Laughter
20. Books
21. My home
22. The Bible
23. Nature/the outdoors
24. DSLR cameras
25. Musical instruments
26. Southern Gospel music
27. Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice for us
28. A hot shower at the end of the day
29. Encouraging music
30. Constant encouragement from friends
31. Flakes of snow falling from the sky
32. Having the freedom to read God’s Word and pray to Him in our country
33. For living in the United States
34. For having a wonderfully cute dog
35. Chocolate!
36. A hot cup of tea
37. For having the ability to write for God’s Glory
38. For God blessing me with a magazine ministry
39. For computers and technology
40. Gel pens!
41. The Internet
42. Tripods
43. Happy memories
44. My church
45. God
46. Pets
47. Art supplies
48. My sewing machine
49. My dolls
50. Good teachers
51. My parents
52. My brother
53. My aunt and uncle
54. Hashem and everything he has provided for me
55. Writing
56. Friends
57. The AMAZING blogging community
58. Food
59. Thanksgiving
60. Christmas
61. Winter
62. Salvation that comes to me through the Holy Spirit
63. Good works that, through God’s grace, I am able to do
64. Strength that God gives me to get through each day
65. Each day that God gives us to live, laugh, and spread His love to those around us
66. Cinnamon rolls
67. Courage to live God’s word fully
68. Modern technology so that I can “know” people that I have never met
69. Beautiful sunsets that we enjoyed this year
70. Warm weather and swimming!
71. The Holy Spirit
72. Macaroni and Cheese
73. Horses
74. Cartoons
75. Crafts
76. Hobby Lobby
77. Purple
78. Sleep
79. Socks
80. Butterflies
81. Songs
82. Dodgeball
83. Toys
84. Playing with my brother
85. Jeans
86. Bikes
87. TobyMac
88. Owl City
89. Color
90. Bunnies
91. A beautiful place to live
92. Our farm
93. Safety
94. The amazing human body
95. The ability to access education easily
96. Health
97. Warmth
98. Blankets
99. Pen pals
100. Internet so friends could stay in touch
101. My Saviour
102. Doctors
103. The police
104. Our veterans
105. Fresh water
106. Being homeschooled
107. Friends
108. My pawpaw and mawmaw
109. Cars(not the movie)
110. TV
111. Our president
112. Our chickens
113. Gods grace
114. That God forgives us and sustains us
115. For the big green earth
116. Trees
117. Fresh air
118. My sewing machine
119. I can walk
120. I can talk
121. I can sing
122. I can help my mom to take care of my siblings
123. Donkeys
124. Different seasons
125. Tastebuds
126. Baseball
127. Animals
128. Being able to worship God freely
129. The book that God helped me write published
130. YouTube followers
131. Being able to make people laugh
132. The people who have inspired/encouraged/blessed me
133. All the people who have invested so much into my life
134. Being born in the USA
135. Our Founding Fathers
136. PureFlix (Christian movies)
137. The Calling that God has put on my life!
138. Peanut butter
139. Frozen yogurt
140. Whoppers
141. Pizza
142. Clothes
143. Forgiveness
144. Candy
145. Plants
146. My teacher
147. My great aunt
148. Being alive!
149. Summer
150. Cats

 

I hope that you enjoyed reading (or skimming!) through this list, and that it encouraged you this Thanksgiving. I hope that it gets you thinking, and that you will remember how much there is to be thankful for.

 

Before I name the contributors, I also want to give a shout-out to Rita from New York North Fine Art. Rita came up with a plan to give to others and to stop world hunger. You can check out her video about the idea here or on her blog!

 

Here are all of the contributors!!

Lizzy

Sara

Clara

Sassafras

Olivia Bell (aka Livy)

Rebcake

vanamangirls

Cherry Cola22

Diamond

kingofthecowboys1943

Hannah

agdolldreams

blackiesunshine

Allison

Laura

Melissa

Mary E.

Megan (A Barefoot Gal)

Bella

The Chloe Blog

AAG

Evy

Thank you all for contributing, and thank you also to anyone reading!

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,

for his steadfast love endures forever.

~Psalm 136:1

 

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!