Day 124: 10 Reasons to Praise God

Should be Day 161.  I thought this would be a nice idea.  I encourage any readers to think about your own list of praises and either leave a comment or write it down for yourself to look at when you're feeling down.  Focusing on the positive never hurt anyone, and focusing on God is even better!

1. I praise God that I have a loving, supporting family.
2. I praise God for never leaving me, or forgetting me, and always giving me a break in life through grace.  I don't deserve it after all the times I have abandoned Him in thought or deed.
3. I praise God for making bright blue skies, the warm sun, and clouds that form art in the sky.
4. I praise God for providing us companionship through our pets or other animals in nature.  Pets are that extra special someone whose presence comforts us and serves as our emotional support when we vent our feelings.  Being around some animals in nature provide a similar effect for me.  I am comforted by their habitual way of simplistic living.  Even though they show no regard to me, I can appreciate them.
5. I praise God for giving me awareness to the things that go on in life, and through my third-person observations, He is able to teach me things.
6. I praise God for giving those who lived before me with persistence, courage, and ingenuity, so we can enjoy all the blessings and modern conveniences that this day and age has to offer.  Where would we be right now without vaccines, electricity, refrigerators, cell phones, and computers?
7. I praise God for blessing my body with good health and the ability to use all my limbs and all my senses.  I know people who aren't as blessed.
8. I praise God for writers, of all types, for without them, ideas would not be spread, timeless novels would not be available, our favorite TV shows would never be written, and we wouldn't have the Bible.
9. I praise God for providing for us through crops to use for food and resources and for animals that provide nourishment (like chicken and hamburger!).
10. I praise God for the life I was given and the time period I was born in.  I know sometimes I wish both things would be different, or at least wonder what it would be like, but I know He gave me this specific life with these circumstances and the resources that this time period has to offer, for a specific reason.