Ever So Grateful Unto Thee

By Daniel Doles

The Lord God has many ways of getting our attention and I realize that this is just one of them. I found myself sitting in my truck with my left arm crushed due to an accident. Thank God, I was the only one involved; then again, this moment in time was just for me. I hydroplaned on water in one of the rainiest days of the year. On my way to work as usual but this became a day that changed my life. Before then, I felt God speaking to my heart, letting me know something was going to happen to me but I didn't know what. In the Bible, there is a scripture that says God chastises those whom he love and that's what helped me make it through, from beginning to end. His grace is sufficient and that's why I am ever so grateful unto thee. I knew I was living a life that was ungodly and in his timing he would get my attention if I didn't start living righteously. What has happened to me has brought me back closer to God. He has blessed me tremendously all in all. Ever so grateful unto thee, I am, O Lord.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781645693826

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Ever So Grateful Unto Thee

Daniel Doles

Copyright © 2019 by Daniel Doles

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Table of Contents

Ever So Grateful Unto Thee

What a Morning

Now What

Lord, Help Me

The Protection

Ever So Grateful Unto Thee

(Now I Know)

Taking for granted the everyday life; sometimes it’s almost predictable. I wake up, get ready for work, grab my lunch, then I’m off to work. I see the same faces from the day before (my co-workers) and do the same job from the day before. Get off work and run errands on the way home. Tired from work, I get cleaned up, eat get ready for sleep, wake up the next day, and do the same thing all over again (the next day). For me this is normal and I accept it. I say that because this can be viewed from different perspectives.

I’ve seen people in wheel chairs, people who were in accidents, people with missing limbs, people lying on their hospital beds. After seeing these things, I realize that I never stopped to think or ask what happened, how did they end up in that situation? From the homeless to someone suffering from divorce, I never remember ever feeling compelled to ask or at the least have compassion toward the depth of someone in these situations. Well you know in these situations there is a beginning, a middle (which is the worse), and even an ending. So what’s the story, what was the feeling, was there a lesson to be learned, is it God’s punishment? Was there great suffering in the lives of those whose everyday life got interrupted by a life-hurting or life-changing situation?

It is possible to feel good about life, I know because I was there a week before my accident. Celebrating my birthday, feeling good about making it to the age of forty, feeling good about how life was panning out at the time. I will say one thing I did notice is that I wasn’t as close to God at that time as I wanted to be.

Yeah I noticed it! But aside from that I started to feel good about life, wait a minute, I just keep being slightly bothered by one thing: I’m not as close to God as I should be. Yes I was praying but something was missing. Yes I was reading my Bible here and there, at times daily but something was missing. I figure just as long as I keep doing these things and go to church, then whatever is missing will pan out. Like I said, other than that I was feeling good about life.

What a Morning

I woke up to the sound of rain and my alarm clock. Up and ready for work, it’s pouring down rain and I’m running a little late for