THANKFUL for YOU Decorated Cookie Collection

With each new set of cookies that I created this summer, I wondered which one would be my last set of cookies. I created this one in particular in anticipation of my final set and unknowingly, it was indeed the last time I decorated cookies. 😢

As I wrap up my cookie decorating endeavor, I wanted to say a huge “thank you” to you. It has been an awesome ride and I’ve enjoyed the journey. The twists and turns of life are often unexpected and sometimes undesirable, but we learn to release the things that we’ve held dear to embrace the next chapter.

This set of “THANKFUL” cookies is for YOU. Yes, YOU. I wanted to be sure that you know how grateful I am for you in my life. I would not be where I am today if not for your love, prayers, encouragement, and support. I count it JOY to have been connected to you and lived life with you…..even if it is “only” through cookie decorating.

I don’t know what the future holds, but I know that it is important to be thankful for what I DO have. Right now, I have today and the opportunity to make it count. And I have a lifetime of memories of so many that I’ve gotten to connect with in a multitude of ways and on a number of different levels. It’s all so important for TODAY.

Taking time to count our blessings gives us the opportunity to see all the good in our lives. Sometimes it seems we have to dig for it…..but IT IS THERE! And finding that avalanche of goodness helps minimize those things that try to steal our joy, peace, and contentment.

For now, I just wanted to say that I love you and
am eternally grateful to God for putting us together.
YOU are such a blessing to me.
Thank you!

💜🙏🏻😘

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How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you? 1 Thessalonians 3:9
I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. Ephesians 1:16
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service. 1 Timothy 1:12

 

Thanksgiving TABLE Decorated Cookie Collection

In 2018, I did a Thanksgiving Feast cookies set to represent all the things seen in a typical Thanksgiving dinner. I wanted to recreate the same concept this year, with new ideas for some of the cookies.

Oh… to gather around the table with family and friends to enjoy good food together….such a pleasant thought. And best of all, a time to stop and access how blessed we truly are.

God is so good! He is the giver of all that is good in our lives. 🙌🏻

Happy Thanksgiving!!

🍁🍂🌻🌾🧡

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Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. Ps 34:8
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows. Ps 23:5
I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. Ps 9:1

Give Thanks Decorated Cookie Collection

Giving Thanks……it is appropriate ANY time of the year. In fact, when I made these cookies in July, I was working to keep the “giving thanks” theme in front of me as I anticipated a series of radiation on my bone metastasis of the spine and sacrum. If we don’t look at all there is to be thankful for, we dwell on the negative.

As we enter this special season of harvest and thanksgiving……may we truly take time to be grateful and give thanks.

🍁🍂🌻🌾🧡

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Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. Psalm 100:4
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. I Thessalonians 5:18
I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. Ps 9:1

Chris' 50th Birthday Decorated Cookie Collection

A good friend had his 50th birthday this year.
I wanted to make him some special cookies just because I understand.
I’m turning 60 in December……so I can relate to
the idea of a milestone birthday during this time of social distancing, etc.

Another year…..another load of blessings…..
and the promise that God will sustain us even in our “old age”.

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Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Isaiah 46:4

 

Radiation Oncology Thank You Decorated Cookie Collection

On the last day of my radiation treatments for bone metastasis, I shared these cookies with my radiation oncology team. Those two weeks of treatments had some rough moments……but thankfully I had my mind busy with making these personalized cookies.

I hope they know how much I appreciate them.

😷📋❤️👩🏽‍⚕️📝😷

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18
We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. I Thessalonians 1:2

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