The Cleverly Newsletter has been published in hard copy since September 1973 and online since October 2008.

Currently posted the first day of each month by Ivard and Dorothy's seventh son, Dean B Cleverly. Comments, suggestions, contributions welcomed at dcleverly@gmail.com.

Monday, November 23, 2009

7 A final word

As we approach another Thanksgiving season, we express our thanks for the Lord’s tender mercies in all our lives. He has greatly blessed us as a family. We are witnesses of His enduring good­ness and grace. We feel of His love and peace.

Each of us, of course, experiences our individual share of life's challenges, heart­aches, and disappointments. Sometimes we feel we are hit with more than our share when severe illness strikes or loved ones die or our hopes and dreams and aspirations seem to go unrealized. And yet, through it all, we really know—or can come to know if we don't already—that it all has purpose, that it's part of the Lord's tutoring plan for our growth and develop­ment, that it's a part of the schooling we signed up for before we came here. And so, once again, we have cause to be thank­ful and rejoice.

With the Psalmist, we can declare, "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" (Psalms 118:24).

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