Thankful Girly Cake Chicks

During this last week, my friends (the Girly cake chicks) and I have been focusing on being thankful. We meet together every Thursday as we are a house group, as part of our local church. There is always cake and laughter, sometimes tears and often something creative to share.

I wrote my list on being thankful on my blog, so I had my laptop for my show and tell!
Read it here
Here are some of the things the lovely Girly Cake Chicks, are Thankful for:

First up was Jen to share. She couldn't make it so she sent it to us!
She said she was thankful for us! (Aww!) Friendship is powerful isn't it!

Emily had an interesting choice, including loo roll!!!
Her list of Thankfulness had begun with the inspiration for the book: Love Mercy, about a lady and her journey from following the "American Dream" to discovering the Kingdom of God.
So she was very thankful for Loo Roll and flushing toilets.

Abbie shared her top 10 favourite things to be thankful for and included this book that had helped her. The book that inspired this was " If you want to walk on Water, you need to get out of the boat" by John Ortberg.

We still eagerly await hearing from the lovely Rachel and Anna, who also couldn't make it.

We did have plenty of time to eat cake! my party political Election Night Cupcakes.


Isn't it great to have a chance to take a fresh look at thankfulness?

Want to share your thankful list?
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My Being Thankful Week

This last week I have been thinking about things I am Thankful for.
I have been taking photos for my 365 project and reflecting on thankfulness for each day as it evolves. Here it is:
My Being thankful Week.

Friday 120/365 I am thankful for my Sat Nav: my loved Tom Tom. I used it to drive to my friends house for tea as the place she lives has streets that all interlink and twist and turn and after a while they all begin to look the same. Know the feeling of being lost and confused and disorientated? I have the cute Irish voice of Sean on my Tom Tom. Our relationship is mixed as sometimes he repeatedly tells me to turn round when I think I know where I am going and sometimes he flies off my windscreen yelling at me with his screen facing the corner away from me as if sulking. I used to hate driving places as night, trying to map read in the dark or having directions written on a post it, only to lose it out of the window in the wind on a summer drive. so Tom Tom, I love you. My Bible is my other wonderful source of direction for my life, too. I wouldn't wish to be without either, now I have them.

Saturday 121/365 I am thankful for my friends. I have lots of friends spread out in different parts of the UK and into the nations. I miss seeing many, often, as it isn't always easy travelling or playing diaries to get to see my friends. Since moving to this city a few years ago, I have begun to make some precious friendships here. Great to be able to meet up and share a coffee... and maybe cake too! I met one friend for coffee and cake today and it was fun.

Sunday 122/365 I am thankful for the Seasons of Life. A walk in my local park today, reminded me that it is now Spring. This last year I have been in a bit of a Winter, experiencing time to rest, recover, re-charge, re-discover, re-energise. I have had times where life has been mad crazy busy and whirlwinds of fun and productivity. Each season a blessing and needed. I am enjoying learning to appreciate times of Refreshing without pouring my life out all the time.

Monday 123/365 I am Thankful for creativity. I began making this bride cake topper out of fondant icing. Creativity is an amazingly fun gift and talent to have and I am beginning to learn to use and develop this gift within me. It will take me a lifetime to continue to try and master and I don't think I will be anyway near perfect at it but a girl can try, can't she.

Tuesday 124/365 I am thankful for safety. A reminder of times when I have known and experienced safety and protection from harm during my own abusive previous marriage. To feel safe is amazing and freedom itself.

Wednesday 125/365 I am Thankful for Relaxing Times. Reading in the bath or the garden are 2 of my favourite places, as is having a spa day, or relaxing with a great movie. These have all been especially important to me this last year as I have been recovering for post viral fatigue and re-discovering my well being again. Books like Punk Monk or Live Like You mean it talk about Rhythms of Life. Good one.

Thursday 126/365 Today is Election Day and I am Thankful for the freedom of choice to vote. Freedom of speech/voice is extremely powerful and as a woman to be able to vote is a necessary privilege. So, I made Election Day cupcakes. I will enjoy them, whilst we wait and see the outcomes.


What have you been thankful for this week?

Write about it here, or post a link to your blogpost!

Join us in Being Thankful Week.

As housegroup, we girlies have been looking at ways of further developing our creativity and openness, through the different ways we share our joys and challenges of every week, bring our gifts and talents to share with each other and continue to have God at the very centre of our lives.

Each week, this term, we are having a different theme. We are studying a book, Live Like you mean it, by Eric Delve and sharing our gifts and talents through craft evenings, meals together and eating cakes we make!This Thursday was Moroccan Night! Abbie mad a delicious chicken and chickpea tagine. Yummy. We shared our thoughts on the the book so far - some lovely thoughts on David - the chosen but unexpectedly chosen shepherd boy and musician with a gift to bring peace in turmoil through music. So powerful. Annointed and sensitive to holy Spirit and yet bold to step out on faith to do what the Lord is saying. A lot for us to digest and live out and ask God for more of Him in the gifting and skills and talents we have in each of us - and a determination to be strong and very brave, for the Lord our God is with us.

This coming week, we Girly Chicks as a house group are focusing our thoughts on things we are Thankful for throughout the week and we will bring our Thankful thoughts, artwork, scripture verses, photos, actual items, whatever we have to be Thankful for to housegroup next Thursday to share about with each other.

Do you want to join us?

I am going to focus on something different for each day and have decided that I will take a photo of it for each day. I will journal it too and try and pray too, particularly about what I am thankful for.

so, if you want to join in.... please do!

You could just do one thing, or your top ten things to be thankful for, or do something to be thankful for each day. You could write a poem, journal, scrapbook, or... whatever you like. Ask God to remind you of the things that are really on your heart to be thankful for!

Put a link to your blog post and mine so others can see it, and write a comment here to let us all know too!

Posts anytime welcome by next weekend ending Monday May 10th.

Have a lovely week Being Thankful!