Day 23 - Godly women

Covenant has been a blessing to us, and truly to me as a wife and mother.  Reading this in Titus caused me to pause and consider all the women in our church who have through loving example showed me how to be a better wife and mother.  I am so grateful for sound doctrine and women who gracefully teach me. 

Titus 2:1-8

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.  Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,  and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,  to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.  Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.  Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

Today I am thankful...

231. For truth

232. for having known Judge Pepper - I was thinking about Judge Pepper on my way to work this morning.  I used to pass him almost every day on my way in to work (some might say I drive too fast).  I am so grateful that I I was blessed with the opportunity to work with such a kind and gentle man.  He was an abashed believer and he radiated genuineness and happiness.  I'm glad I think of him so often.

233. for Seeing tractors back in the field, tilling up the soil.

234. for Jane Cannon's growing personality

235. for drinking a diet coke sitting on the tailgate of a truck

236.  for smoked almonds

237. for XM radio

238. for the first day of the NCAA tournament and rooting for underdogs

239.  for ESPN.com's NCAABB scoreboard

240. For Buddy Holly and the influence he had on music and memories of listening to him for a month straight at my grandmother's house the summer I turned 11.