Thankful Heart
My favorite thanksgiving memories involve helping my mom cook the most delicious spread while watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Oh how I love that parade. My favorite part, of course, were the musical numbers from Broadway shows. Even though the actors and actresses lip-synced, and you could tell they were usually freezing, it was always the best part of the parade for me. My favorite Thanksgiving dish would have to be the dressing. My mom never stuffed it in the turkey, so it was always a little crunchy on top, full of apples and onions and delicious flavors. Mmm, I can taste it already!
This year I am so thankful for so many things. I'm thankful first to be a child of God, saved and sanctified and set apart! I'm thankful for my amazing husband, Matt, and our 2-month-old little boy, Matthew Elijah. They are my greatest joys! I'm thankful for my parents, Mike and Kate, for their unending support and love. I'm thankful that they love God and each other, and that after all these years, we are still so close, and ever growing closer. I'm thankful for my in-laws, Billy and Annabeth, and for the siblings I've inherited, Will and Joy, and their spouses, Jamie and Brad. They make me better and have taught me so much about family. I'm thankful for my nephews, Ean, Spencer, and Sawyer, and for my little niece who I get to meet in just a few months!
I'm thankful for our home in Georgia, our church family, and all the new friends I'm making down here. I'm thankful for my friends in Nashville who still love me even though we moved 3 hours away! :) I'm thankful to make music for a living. I'm thankful for this album that is almost DONE! I'm thankful for the opportunity to go out on the Winter Jam tour in January with so many friends. I'm thankful that my sweet little family gets to travel with me. I'm thankful for my label, my managers, my booking agents, my business managers, my band, and everyone on Team Franny. They work so hard on my behalf, and they are family to me.
I'm thankful to radio for all their support over the past 2 years and for all the friends I've made all over the country. I'm thankful for the promoters who keep asking me to come play at their churches and festivals. I'm thankful for YOU, the fans, who make this all worth it! I wouldn't be able (nor would I want) to do what I do without you.
God, thank you for a great year. Thank you for the ability to spend time resting this holiday season, and for all the amazing blessings you have poured out. I am unworthy. I love you!
So, what are you thankful for this year??
Love,
Francesca
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THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR THIS YEAR
I'm thankful for God's protection, provision, guidance, His mercy, His grace and most of all His everlasting love that keeps me smiling everyday. I'm also thankful for knowing Francesca Batistelli and how God has used her song lyrics to heal my wounds. At the beginning of this year, I didn't think I would have something to be thankful for but God called me and that is what has made me to see how much I should be grateful to Him. God pulled me out of sin, He made me to realize how selfish I was and how I only thought about myself. Sometimes, I wonder why out of all the people in this world, he feels that I should have his love.
I am thankful for the shelter, I do not just live in any place but a comfortable place. I know I wouldn't be telling this story if it were some years back.
When I hear of the accidents that people are involved in, I ought to be thankful that He preserved me from harm's way and I should always have the thought that it could have been me but b'coz of God's mercy and grace, I'm alive today.
I 'm thankful to God for making me to be rich in wisdom and wealthy in understanding. He always makes me shine everywhere I go.
Every night I sleep peacefully knowing that He gives His angels charge over me and I wake up with every part of my body complete and whole. It's something to be thankful for, don't you think so? Well, I don't know your opinion, but I don't only think so, I know so.
Thanks Franny, for this opportunity to share my mind with everbody.
Love,
Mercy
THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR THIS YEAR
I'm thankful for God's protection, provision, guidance, His mercy, His grace and most of all His everlasting love that keeps me smiling everyday. I'm also thankful for knowing Francesca Batistelli and how God has used her song lyrics to heal my wounds. At the beginning of this year, I didn't think I would have something to be thankful for but God called me and that is what has made me to see how much I should be grateful to Him. God pulled me out of sin, He made me to realize how selfish I was and how I only thought about myself. Sometimes, I wonder why out of all the people in this world, he feels that I should have his love.
I am thankful for the shelter, I do not just live in any place but a comfortable place. I know I wouldn't be telling this story if it were some years back.
When I hear of the accidents that people are involved in, I ought to be thankful that He preserved me from harm's way and I should always have the thought that it could have been me but b'coz of God's mercy and grace, I'm alive today.
I 'm thankful to God for making me to be rich in wisdom and wealthy in understanding. He always makes me shine everywhere I go.
Every night I sleep peacefully knowing that He gives His angels charge over me and I wake up with every part of my body complete and whole. It's something to be thankful for, don't you think so? Well, I don't know your opinion, but I don't only think so, I know so.
Thanks Franny, for this opportunity to share my mind with everbody.
Love,
Mercy
~ Thankful ~
What am I thankful for? I am so very thankful that "God is," the embodiment of love in it's purest form.
Things I am thankful for
I am thankful for basic things like food, shelter, etc.
I'm also thankful for my faith, friends, teachers (student teacher included), family, school, Christian singers like Francesca B., writing, books, freedom, etc.
There's a snap shot at some of the things I am thankful for, of course there are many more items in life that I am grateful for.
Love,
Louise
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