Thankful
At this time of the year, I often think about some of the things I’m most thankful for. Even when we are going through difficult times there is always something to praise God for and be thankful. “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” I Thessalonians 5:18.
As I reflect on some of the things I am most thankful for, the following comes to mind: My relatives. My friends. My church family. My pastor and his wife. My publisher. My dear readers. The joy of writing books. Memories of the years I had with my loving husband. My faith in God, and knowing how much He loves and cares for me. “Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his love endures forever.” I Chronicles 16:34.
What are some of the things you’re most thankful for today?
Wanda, was looking around here and reading posts, I stumbled and saw You lost Your Dear Husband. Just wanted to say how sorry to hear of His passing. May God send You All Comfort in the Days and years ahead. I hope it was ok to send this after all this time!
God Bless You All!
That God died on the cross for my sins and rose and he’s always there for me no matter how much I may stray. That’s what I’m thankful for. I could list a lot more though but this is the main thing I’m thankful for.
I am thankful for my faith, my health, my family , and Wanda Brunstetter books.
I Love your books
Hi Wanda,
As an avid reader of your books, I would love to have a signed copy of your latest book, Prayer Jar Devotional. I have been growing in my faith lately, doing a bible study, reading the bible and other devotionals throughout the day; and, I am about to join a church that I have been attending. I’m excited for that! I’m learning that God is good and everything is according to His plan. Thank you for all that you do for those people in your life.
Denise Richards
i am thankful for my husband, daughter, and granddaughter. The peace and comfort that comes from knowing Jesus Christ. My other family members. My church family. Being the daughter of two Christian parents who left me with wonderful memories.The joy of reading that began when I learned my ABCs. Oh, my! I am truly blessed?
I am so thankful for so many things. First my salvation through Chris, Second my Christain husband and third my family and the salvation of the children and most recently my 12 year old Grandson Richard whom God blessed me with the privilege of leading him in the prayer of salvation. God is good.
Whoops I see a typo. First my salvation through ‘Christ’!
thankful for a loving God, a warm place to live, family and friends.. with so much going on in the world.. Thankful that I know an love God. while a lot in the world, don’t believe.
I absolutely love your books!!! I’m so Thankful for you and your ability 💙
would love to win a signed copy of your new devotional, Thankful. Love your books. Have been reading them for years.
This is the first Thanksgiving without my dad. I am thankful for the love and blessings of Jesus and having my wonderful husband to be there for me. I am also grateful for wonderful authors like you who help take my mind off of the difficult things and let me escape into a wonderful novel or devotionals.
I am thankful for each day the Lord gives me and the time I am spending with my grandson who is hospitalized. Prayers for Jacob for healing would be much appreciated. May you have a blessed December.
Prayers sent for Jacob’s healing.
I am thankful for Christian authors like you. I am just starting to read the Amish Ballerina and look forward to some quiet time reading now that the weather is getting cold. I live about 1 3/4 hours from Lancaster and especially during the spring, summer and fall, when health permits, my husband and I and sometimes friends take day trips at least twice a month to buy fresh Amish produce and just ride the back roads. When I read your books I feel like I can picture exactly where the story is taking place.
This past year has been a struggle for me health wise and also watching my husband’s memory fail with vascular dementia but I feel like I am still so blessed. During times of crisis this past year people showed up to help us and overwhelmed us with their concern and kindness. I am very blessed to have the friends and family I have.
I pray you have a wonderful winter in your new home.
Katherine reynolds
I’m thankful for people like you, Wanda. You give us hope and reminders of all that is beautiful in this world when we are constantly bombarded with negativity. Your books and newsletters give us a chance to break away from that and fill our souls with peace! I thank you for sharing your stories and thoughts. Even while grieving, you continue to share with us. You are a strong woman and a gift to us all.
Prayers are sent your way!
I pray that you and your family have a blessed holiday season
I’m so very thankful for God’s love and grace! I am also thankful for the gift of time! Time spent gathering with family and friends, making memories, playing games, sharing meals! ♥️
I’m thankful for my family and friends and feel well too. I’m thankful for you and all your books I love reading them.
I’m so thankful for the gift of forgiveness that our God gives us and the mercy that he bestows. I had been lost for a while in my life,but I never was alone and Jesus found me and brought me back and forgave me and had mercy on me. I’m so thankful for such a loving eternal Father!
Thankful for you & all the books you have written. sorry about the loss of your husband yet thankful you two had many years of love, family, and faith. I am so thankful for my husband of 62 years, our daughter & her husband of 34 years, our faith together & our friends from church & from our neighborhood.
I am thankful for a loving and caring heavenly Father, my family and the freedom to go to any church that I want to. I love reading your books
God, and my family, church family. For Authors like you.
I love your thankful message. I am thankful for my salvation and relationship with God. I am thankful for family also
So thankful for so many things, but at the moment I am thankful that you have written so many wonderful books. I have read so many of them and have enjoyed everyone! Bless you this holiday season and “Remember the Reason for the Season!”
I always enjoy reading your journal. I enjoy reading your books and after I read them I donate them to the nursing home up the street.
I am thankful for everyday that I am able to see another day.
I am thankful for each and every day, and start my day off by saying” Good morning Lord, how are YOU today? My next prayer is “thank you for Jesus, for another morning”.
I move on to family, health, friends, church family, all medical personnel, you, in sharing your love of God and inspiration.
God is good all the time. All the time God is good 🙂
I am thankful for all of the blessings God has given me. A loving husband of 37 years, 2 beautiful children, many friends and family, a nice house to live in, the ability to grow my own food, health, the beauty of nature, and God’s love and forgiveness. I am also thankful for you Wanda, for writing Christian books that bring me so much happiness, peace and remind me of God’s goodness.
I am so very thankful that you write these wonderful books…Karen
I’m thankful for my family. Both living and already past. Most of all my God. Whom has made my life complete.
Hello Wanda. I am glad you were able to go to the beautiful island. I look forward to reading your upcoming book. I am most grateful for my amazing granddaughter she makes my life full of love and joy.
I am thankful for a loving God who created this world and all good things in it. I am thankful for my family and friends. I am thankful that God provides our needs.
I am thankful for an invite to my 4 Great Granddaughters Christmas program at their elementary school. I have not seen them for over year. I am so excited, I am so blessed and a prayer has been answered. God is good! Prayers for you & your family.
I have so much to be thankful for this time of year. I just celebrated 31 years of marriage with my husband the day before Thanksgiving. As a ‘country girl’ I’m thankful for the bountiful harvest for myself and others around me. My children, my friends, and church all leave me thankful as well. I am thankful for you, Wanda, and your interesting and uplifting books.
I am thankful for family and friends. I am also thankful for the many blessings I have. I thank God for loving me and putting up with me daily.
I’m glad you had a nice Thanksgiving with your family. And I hope you have a blessed Christmas as well. I love your books lol I read them over and over and over again. I even listen over and over and over again to your audiobooks and I can never wait till the new one comes out. God bless.
I’m thankful for my Lord and Savior!! Also so thankful for my family and the food and housing that God provides!!
I’m thankful for good health for myself,my boyfriend and our 3 children. I’m thankful that I’m a good enough mom for my kids to know they can always come to me for anything. I’m thankful for you Wanda that you continue to give and really make people feel like they are welcomed even if you don’t know each of us personally.
So many things to be thankful for this year. My family and friends are the frontrunners on my list.
Praying for you this Christmas season. God bless.
My sentiments exactly
I loved the comment you made in your newsletter saying that even though you were grieving you were thankful for so many other things in your life. Those other things (friends, family and Jesus) are what helped me get through the loss of my mom. Thank you for your books, I love them and I have so many and always look forward to your new ones.
I am thankful for my husband and family, a warm house, food to eat. Mostly my Lord and Savior who loved me enough to make me one of His children.
I am thankful that I like the Christmas season again as my husband Luke passed away 1 week before Christmas in 2004.
Things I am thankful for: God and His Son that we might have life Everlasting. Hearing to be able to hear all the sounds of nature, eye sight and being able to enjoy all the beautiful fall colors God has created, beautiful sun rises, sun sets, the joy in great nephews as they learn new things. Family and the help they give us when we are not feeling well. Church family and friends. Reading your books. Health.
I love your books
I am thankful for the discovered joy in gardening, and preserving, beekeeping, chickens – homesteading. I am thankful for my husband that that loves me unconditionally, my kids and grandkids, friends and my faith.
So many things to be thankful for, especially this time of the year.
Looks like you enjoyed your trip in Hawaii.
Would love a copy of your 3 Minute Devotional Pray Jar Book
Have A BLESSED CHRISTMAS!
Sheila
Recently lost my husband also.
But so thankful for my 3 adult daughters 2 sons-in-law and 2 wonderful granddaughters with one on the way!!
I am so Thankful for my Family and friends and for the Good Lord letting me see another Beautiful Day! Many continued Prayers coming your way Wanda!
Wanda, your books are always amazing and excellent reads. Thank you for sharing them with us and have a wonderful day and god bless you all for the holiday season.
Some of the things I am grateful for are my family, my health, my husband is now working close to home instead of traveling every single week and I am so thankful to see him more than 2 days a week now. It’s been 11 years of constant travel and I’ve been a single mom all week long, crying on Sunday’s when he leaves. No more tears! Praise God He heard my prayers. I am also very thankful my mom was still with us for Thanksgiving. Last May she was diagnosed with 2 types of cancer and she’s been through so much. We are very blessed!
I am thankful that the Lord’s mercies never fail me. God has been with me through some dark times of life battling Multiple Sclerosis. I praise him for my family, friends, church family & Pastor who is my husband. I am thankful for your writing talent & passion sharing your books including cookbooks as I enjoy each one I read! God bless you for your uplifting words & reflections of our own lives in your books, truly works of art, as Nehemiah tells us, The joy of the Lord is my strength! Prayers for you in the loss of your dear husband, may God give you extra measures of grace & wrap you in his love.
My salvation, Jesus, my family, my birthplace, my Bible preaching church and my 14 yr breast cancer survivorship.
I am most thankful for my husband, children, parents, career, health and Jesus Christ. I feel gratitude towards my church, CCD and the ability to give back.
I am thankful, that even though my husband of 48 years passed away this year, I know he is no longer in pain.
I am also thankful for my family and friends. I am also thankful having a place to live and a job that I enjoy going to.
So thankful that this year, I feel that my relationship with God has become more meaningful and stronger. My health is improving, thanks to God. I am thankful and grateful that He is always there.
I absolutely agree with you. I read every single book of yours. My daughter went to one of your signings and bought me some books. I read them then and pass them down to my daughter. When she is done I share them with friends. They are so inspirational. I will continue reading your books as long as you are writing them. Thank you!
I’m so grateful for my friends, family and my faith in God. I’m grateful for every sunrise and sunset that I see every day. it reminds me of everything he had his hand in. I’m grateful for all my animals and the different roles they have in my life from my chickens to the cats and all the animals on my little Homestead.
Thankful for my family
I am so thankful for my health and family and friends. And I thank God our Father for each day he gives me.
I am thankful for my family. For a job helping young families in the Head Start program.
I am thankful for my health, most recently having a health issue but thankful all came out ok.
Most of all I am thankful for being able to have a roof over my head and food on my table.
Definitely thankful for being able to read wonderful books!
I love your books and have a lot of them. Thank you for writing them.
I have much to be thankful for this year. After a 7 year battle, we were finally able to adopt our 8 year old grandson . We are so very blessed. I thank God for the strength He gave me throughout all the ups and downs and when I felt all hope was lost, He showed me otherwise.
Sharon F.
I am so thankful for my salvation, my husband, God’s provision, the gift of being able to share what we have with others, my estranged family, whom I pray will come to the Lord some day, and for you & the wonderful gift of your writing that blesses so many.
my 89 years old Mother came home from the nursing home in time for Thanksgiving, to be with my Dad which is also 89, my brother and his wife and myself and 2 of my kids and families were all together. was really a good day.
I am so thankful for the gift of salvation!
I would love to win a free copy of your prayer jar I need as many as I can get.
Pam Thomson
3306s Celebration Dr West Valley Utah 84128
I am thankful for my daughter, Sara, I had knee replacement in April. and some reactions to the anesthesia and couldn’t take pain meds be of allergies,. then an apartment came available in a senior complex, and her and her husband and her friends got me all moved. now I’m having vision problems and she once again is right by my side helping me. she is my blessing from God.
I am thankful for my church family. I haven’t always had a church family. I’m thankful for my friend who introduced me to Christian fiction. I have purchased every one of your books. Still haven’t read all of them , but I’m working on it.
I lost my husband 6 yrs ago. instead of grieving, after a yr. The pastor told me to be Thankful for the years we had together. I began to appreciate my family more , Thanking God for them and what I had
So thankful.for my family and you are such a blessing for passing the word of our heavenly father. thank you.
So thankful for you and your inspiring books!
I’m thankful I got to go be with my son and his family for Thanksgiving thus year, I haven’t seen them in two years, we had a wonderful time.
Im thankful for health,and family and most of all Im thankful to know Godand His goodness each day.
I am most thankful for being a child of God. My family and my friends. Having a home to keep me warm and food to eat. I am thankful for my grandchildren and even my Sam ( my beagle). My mom passed this year on Memorial Day. It’s been hard not being able to just call her or go by and just talk for hours.
I’m thankful for my family and my health and the memories from all the vacations with my husband.
Thankful for the wonderful husband that the Lord gave me 38 years ago.
Also thankful for my loving heavenly Father who died to redeem me.
Giving thanks in all circumstances is hard to do sometimes. Thank you for modeling that even in grief.
I’m thankful for my faith , my family and my friends
I am thankful for many things. Today I am thankful that my daughter in law and my 3 grandchildren are safe after a car accident.
Thankful for salvation is my number 1.
Thankful for my mother in law leading me to Christ on Christmas Day 1980.
Thankful for my family, friends, church, freedom. Thankful for authors like yourself so we can read books. And so many more…
I’m very thankful for God sending His Son to die for our sins, my son, pets & family. For you too Wanda giving us inspiration in your books to live a good life through Christ.
I’m thankful for my Husband, family wonderful Church family and our Lord Jesus Christ. I am thankful for my mother 🙏
I am thankful for my family and friends. I am thankful for the blessings in my life.
Each day I am thankful for another day to make a difference in others’ lives. I am in the healthcare industry and nothing is more rewarding than a patient and/or a family smile! What a gift that God has given me in being able to care for others for 42 and counting years. I am very blessed and thankful for a wonderful husband and 2 great adult children. I am thankful for my mother and in laws, and even though my father is in heaven I am thankful daily for the strong guiding principles he taught me. This is the season to reflect on our gifts from God and I appreciate the opportunity to do so. Have a blessed Christmas season.
So glad you have family that care for you. So important to help cope with the loss of your dear husband. Nothing can really fill the void, but being surrounded by the love of family and especially the love of Jesus softens the edges! I know from personal experience.
I’m thankful for Mercy and Grace that our savior gives to us everyday. After the passing of my husband on Easter Sunday this year after five years of treatments I finally realized he’s at peace and in the arms of Jesus and completely healed. Knowing one day I’ll be where he is, together💕🙌