{"id":6157,"date":"2013-04-16T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2013-04-16T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T07:04:23","slug":"6157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/6157\/","title":{"rendered":"O Give Thanks . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;For His mercy endureth forever.&#8221;<\/em> I went to sleep with those words in my head. I woke up the next morning with the same words still there. <em>&#8220;O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good: for His mercy endureth forever.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6172\" title=\"AccidentAprilReal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AccidentAprilReal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AccidentAprilReal.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/AccidentAprilReal-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our married daughter texted me just as the intermission was ending at the concert my husband and I were enjoying. My son-in-law and his sister had just witnessed a 55 mph collision that two seconds later would have involved them head-on. They stopped to help. One driver was thrown out of her car.<\/p>\n<p>I prayed for that driver as I lay down to sleep. I prayed for her family. I thanked my merciful Father for protecting <em>our<\/em> family.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;O give thanks to the Lord . . . for His mercy endureth forever.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Give thanks to Him:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who gives life and breath<\/li>\n<li>Whose eye is ever on us<\/li>\n<li>Who shields us when we don&#8217;t even know we&#8217;re in danger<\/li>\n<li>Who carries our children through the many perils of childhood (many that we will never know about, and some that they will tell us about <em>later<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Who carries <em>us <\/em>when, in His great and mysterious wisdom, for reasons that only He knows, He allows us and those we love to suffer loss and tragedy and pain.<\/li>\n<li>Who comforts and sustains, even when we don&#8217;t understand what He is doing.<\/li>\n<li>Who works all things out for His glory and our good, no matter how bad it looks<\/li>\n<li>Who has conquered sin and death and reigns at His Father&#8217;s right hand<\/li>\n<li>Who will someday wipe away <em>all <\/em>tears<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good: for His mercy endureth forever.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Lord, for mercifully sparing these lives that mean so much to me! And thank you for your mercy that did not spare <em>your<\/em> own Son, but sent Him to the cross and buried Him in order to make <strong>all things new<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;And God\u00a0shall wipe\u00a0away\u00a0all\u00a0tears\u00a0from\u00a0their\u00a0eyes;\u00a0and\u00a0there shall be no more death, neither\u00a0sorrow, nor\u00a0crying,\u00a0neither\u00a0shall\u00a0there\u00a0be\u00a0any\u00a0more\u00a0pain:\u00a0for\u00a0the former\u00a0things\u00a0are passed\u00a0away\u00a0. 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