#LMMLinkup is about learning and reading. I have so much to be grateful for this week, including teachers, crafts, and books. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday this week!
Today’s gratitude topic asks:
What teachers are you grateful for?
I am too old to remember most of my teachers, but I am grateful for my daughter’s teachers, in particular her seventh grade English teacher. She believed in my daughter and switched her to the advanced English class at her school. My daughter always says she is her all time favorite teacher because she encouraged a love of writing and reading.
I am also thankful for my daughter music coach this year. She pushes my daughter to excel as a singer and piano player while making it fun and entertaining.
Teachers lead, direct, mode, and build character. They serve as foundations in our children’s lives. I know my teachers created in me a love for life-long learning.
What teachers are you grateful today?
Be sure to share in the comments below.
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Now let’s
Last Week’s Top Clicked Post!
What I Learned About Myself by Doing an ‘Argument Autopsy’
By Beth Steffaniak at Messy Marriage
In this post, Beth introduces her guest post at Sheila Wray Gregoire’s blog To Love, Honor, and Vacuum. She also includes a great resource to help you determine why you argue and how you argue and what your arguing style with your husband says about your marriage. The blog post also includes a prayer journal with guide questions and scriptures to help edify your marriage. Beth provide so many useful tools on her blog. Messy Marriage continues to be one of my favorite blogs. Her blog posts have been the most clicked several times because she delivers such useful information to help Christian women improve their marriages.
My Favorite Post(s) of the Week
In the spirit of learning and Thanksgiving, I have three favorite posts for which I am thankful this week. First:
From the blog, Our Unschooling Journey Through Life, I enjoyed discovering some 10 GreatThanksgiving crafts. Two of my favorite craft ideas were an Indian Corn Wreath and a Thanksgiving Tree.
We also had a post featuring some great reads from Melissa at her blog, Jesus Loves Me Devotions. Melissa features five of her favorite Thanksgiving books. I loved the book, A Very Thankful Prayer. Be sure to check her great post out today.
Five Thanksgiving Books to Supplement Your Child’s Devotions
We also need to focus on spiritual truths for Thanksgiving which is why I enjoyed Diana’s post:
6 BIBLICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A THANKFUL HEART
These characteristics will provoke and challenge you as you try to live up to each of them. She also includes a great resource for Thanksgiving: Blessed Thanksgiving Verses.
Now, it is time to link up to the Literacy Musing Mondays hop!
Linkup Rules:
- Include a link back or the blog hop button linked to this hop on your posts.
- Link up the urls to your posts not to your blog.
- Please remember this is a family-friendly linkup. Although we believe in the right for adults to read whatever they want to read, we prefer to read wholesome posts that feature literature that edify and uplift families. We reserve the right to delete any posts that are not family friendly. We love all kinds of literature and genres including family-friendly inspirational romances, fantasy, or science fiction. We do not welcome any posts that feature excessive violence, sexual content, or any cursing. This rule also applies to book review posts that feature books that are not family-friendly. These posts will be deleted without notice to the blogger or explanation. While we believe in the right for all adults to read whatever they want, we feel our linkup is for family-friendly posts only. Thank you for understanding.
- We also want to be loving community by supporting one another. Please make a point to do this this week! Visit the two posts before yours and at least one other blogger’s post of your choice! I want to see lots of clicks on everyone’s posts. Remember it is also nice to follow them on their social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
- Follow your hosts and co-hosts on their social media.
- Tweet about the link up too.
Today’s post also continues my special series celebrating gratitude. As we approach the Holy Season of Advent, first I fix my mind on thankfulness. Thankfulness is a state of being. It is part of the cross that we deliberately choose to pick up each day as we follow Christ. To celebrate Thankfulness, I have created a Fall Bible study and journey that I invite you to join with me.
As I write this series, I am also joining Jennifer Dukes Lee’s 30 Days of Gratitude Challenge. Her beautiful graphic above lists 30 daily gratitude topics on which I will base each day’s post this month.
Even though the posts will be short, I plan to pack them with inspiration and Scriptural truths as we lead up to the Thanksgiving holidays and then flow into Christmas. This series is my gift to you.
Be sure to check out my Linkup Parties page for great blog hops that I join each week.
Happy Thanksgiving, Mary!!!
Thanks for the link up this morning! 🙂
Rachel Lee recently posted…Why True Thanks-Giving is Done With a Kiss
Rachel. Thanks. Happy thanksgiving to you too.
Mary Hill recently posted…My Thankfulness Prayer for My Home
You welcome. Happy thanksgiving to you too.
I’m grateful for losing my job earlier this year because it gave me a chance to reevaluate my situation and focus on what’s really important.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Sorry you lost your job though. I know at the time it may have felt like a blow. I hope all turns out well for you.
Thank you so much for the feature! I appreciate you hosting this linkup.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Melissa, you welcome. I enjoyed your post.
Mary Hill recently posted…#LMMLinkup: Grateful for Teachers, Crafts, and Books
You welcome and Happy Thanksgiving to you too.
I got a little nervous when I thought I had to go back and remember my teachers. I’m too old too. I am so thankful for the few teachers that were willing to get involved when they saw my children might be struggling. They were willing to speak up because they cared. One year, in particular, it was one teacher out of six. Happy Thanksgiving!
I am grateful for you and the other hosts for this wonderful link-up. Maree
Maree Dee recently posted…Do Lost People Really Matter to You?
Thank you so much for the feature! I’m so glad you enjoyed our crafting ideas. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family.
Mother of 3 recently posted…100 Days of Science #8– Un Make It! Monday
I’m thankful for my 8th and 9th grade English teachers who though I could write creatively (and not just my spelling 😉 ).
Anita Ojeda recently posted…Grace Camp for Grownups
Anita, I loved a lot of my English teachers who encouraged me in my writing too.
Mary Hill recently posted…#LMMLinkup: Grateful for Teachers, Crafts, and Books
Mary, I love this subject because teachers (whether in a Bible study or a public school classroom or even on a blog) have the potential to influence others in powerful ways. I have several that I’m very thankful for. Thanks to you, too, for hosting each week and for sharing so many great resources, another form of teaching. I hope you and your family have a wonderful, blessed, restful Thanksgiving!
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Donna,
You welcome. Happy Thanksgiving.
Mary Hill recently posted…#LMMLinkup: Grateful for Teachers, Crafts, and Books
Happy Thanksgiving to you Mary – thanks for all you do each week! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving!
The teacher I am most thankful for is my husband who has spent the past 24 years in a classroom trying to make a difference in the lives of his students.
Michele Morin recently posted…When God Says “Yes”
Thanks so much for sharing Michele, and I pray special blessings on your husband today.
Mary Hill recently posted…#LMMLinkup: Grateful for Teachers, Crafts, and Books
We were just talking recently about teachers and the impact they’ve had on our lives. I’m so grateful both for the ones in my own life and those in the lives of my kids. When we moved seven years ago, we had been trying to put off moving until my son could finish school – he was in the 10th grade at a school he had been in since K-5, and we didn’t want to uproot him, especially at that point. But after a year of my husband working in one state while we lived in another, and only having him home on weekends, we decided that wasn’t good for our family, either, so we moved. My son had a good attitude – he said this was the first really hard thing he had to face, so it would be good for him. At that new school was a Bible and music teacher who meant a great deal to him, and I thought, “Maybe this is why we had to move when we did.”
Barbara H. recently posted…Friday’s Fave Five
God puts the people in our lives at the exact time we need them. Thank you so much for sharing
Mary Hill recently posted…#LMMLinkup: Grateful for Teachers, Crafts, and Books
As a teacher for 35 years, thank you for being thankful for teachers! Happy Thanksgiving.
Debbie, you welcome. You deserve so much more than just mere thanks. Teachers are really unsung heroes.
Mary Hill recently posted…#LMMLinkup: Grateful for Teachers, Crafts, and Books
I’m grateful for the Bible teachers and pastors I’ve had in my life and my family’s life, Mary. And thanks for highlighting my post, as well as the kind words you’ve shared! I really appreciate it and am grateful for your linkups!
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Wonderful post. I am most grateful for my high school world history teacher who gave me the confidence to apply to college, and eventually to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in history. Without her, my teaching career and my Little Miss HISTORY series would not have been possible.