It’s praise time again, hosted by My Chocolate Heart. Every day is a good day to praise, but for me, today especially, because I am not my usual Happy Housewife self, but rather sad and flat. Things have happened in the last week which have been like little rain clouds blocking the sun, and sometimes pouring down on me, so to make a sacrifice of praise will be a good exercise in discipline!

“By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.” Hebrews 13:15

• I praise God for the sunshine that I did have yesterday, when I spent a couple of blessed hours at the park with my husband, daughter and grandchildren. We had a lovely time, and I made a daisy chain necklace, which I haven’t done for years!
• I praise God for friends who support and love me and are prepared to stick around and listen when the going gets tough.
• I praise God for my physical health, which although not brilliant, is good enough to get me through each day in one piece.
• I praise God for coffee and chocolate, and then for the opportunity to offer them up as a sacrifice now that my stomach won’t tolerate them *sigh* thank you God for this opportunity for mortification and sef-denial! (I am not gritting my teeth, honestly!)
• I praise God for the fact that I am now on a break from my work, and I am going to go out into the sunshine and enjoy looking at the sky, and listening to the wind in the trees. Thank You Lord for the beautiful creation You have made! 

Look to this day:
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence…

For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.

Kālidāsa ~ Sanskrit Poet