She decides to make him a pie for his birthday.  It’s her first attempt at putting love in a dish.  I shuffle through my recipes and put together the perfect combination of cookie crust goodness and sweet blackberry filling.  Frozen not fresh, but still, he will smile and love it and she will beam.  Learning early that blessing and love sometimes come as we mix,measure, and give of ourselves. He feels it with every last bite that he eats, right from the pie plate on Sunday morning after church.

Counting 1,000 Gifts…

#959  How they really get more excited than he does about his birthday.

#960  Handmade cards.

#961  Making pie and memories come flooding back – of picking berries with papaw.

#962  Settling in.

#963  The chance to cook in my kitchen again.

#964  A noisy house.

#965  That we have His name.

#966  Play Dates for kids and moms, too.

#967  A chance to encourage another with my story.

#968  How He thinks of us.

#969  What He thinks of us.

#970  That He even thinks of us at all!

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My journey began here, with Ann, at A Holy Experience.  I am nearing my goal of 1,000 gifts and I am changed and humbled by the invitation she sweetly gives each week to join her at a her place.  It is the closest you will get to having Sunday dinner on her Canadian farm.  Please, won’t you join her and her multitude of gratitude chasers?