Will you look at that!? Here it is – almost the first of November, and it’s been officially fall for a good six weeks now. The weather here in Iowa has been gorgeous, the guys have put in some really good (and long) days in the field, and Thanksgiving is fast approaching.
In honor of the month of November, which boasts a most wonderful holiday, I'd like to encourage all of you to join me for the 2nd Annual Giving Thanks Challenge! All you have to do is post one thing you're thankful for each day somewhere on your blog. It doesn't even have to be an actual thought-out post. Just start making a list on your sidebar - somewhere you can see it every day to encourage an attitude of thankfulness.
Wanna join me? Here's the scoop:
Grab the button. Copy the code under the button in my sidebar and paste it into an HTML Java Script element on your own sidebar to let all your friends know you're joining in. This is a great way to encourage your own readers to begin as well - to develop a more thankful heart.
Sign in with Mr. Linky. Leave your first name and blog address below and I'll swing by your place now and then to see how your list is growing. A quick matter of housekeeping - please just leave your first name. "Sally @ Momma to Tom, Dick and Harry" is just too long to fit on one line. =)
It doesn't matter if you start now, November 1st, or sometime mid-month. It's never too late to acknowledge God's love for you and His faithfulness to you!
Happy November!
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What a great idea! I'm joining in!
I'm so excited that you're doing this again this year. I was hoping you would and I've been looking forward to it. ~Hope your day is blessed!
Leah
I enjoyed this last year and will do it again beginning Nov. lst.
I haven't been by in awhile. Between our trips, my getting the flu and all my company for the breast cancer walk, my life has been c-r-a-z-y!!! Everyone has gone now though and my house is quiet (thank you Lord!). BUT...I'm desperatly trying to get caught up.
Hugs!
Kat
I found your blog via my friend Kristin! What a great idea! I can't wait to start!!!!
Hi! I found your blog via Tiffany @ Southern Sass.
I'm so excited to see this Challenge. I'd thought of doing this on my own, but how much more fun to participate with a group!
Thanks for the reminder!!! I will be happy to join in!!!
I thought this was fun last year! Thanks for reminding me!
Will definitely do this again this year....going to set it up now!
Thanks for hosting this!
This is great. Thanks for hosting!
I love this idea!!! I came here from my friend Terri's blog and I can't wait to take part!!!
I think I need to do this. Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and reminding me of this today, Leah! I feel with the way things are in our country right now, a thankful list is definitely in order! Glad you are hosting again.
*smiles*
Kim
Leah~ Thanks for letting me know! This is such a great Thanksgiving... and anytime... reminder!
Hi Leah, thanks for coming by. I'm joining in again. So glad you're doing this, we all need to focus more on what positive things there are in our lives. Put your button linked to your blog on my sidebar with today's thanks and will give more details on my blog in my next post. {{HUGS}}
I got my post up...thanks for the reminder!!
Leah! I'm so glad you found me at my new URL and invited me to join in this years Thankful Month Challenge! I'm excited!
Leah, I remember this so fondly —with that gentle reminder. Thank you so much for the nudge! I'll be joining in tomorrow and will post my link then. Your button is already up on my sidebar.
I just found your site and love it and I am doing The Giving Thanks Challenge.
What a wonderful idea!!!! Thanks for reminding all of us that regardless what is going on, we have much to be thankful for.
Hugs,
Debbie
Thanks for inviting to join you again this year! I have begun!
I love this!! I just saw it Justabeachkat's blog...and WOW! I am so excited to join...happy November and Thanksgiving!
:-) Susan
Hi Leah,
Loved doing this last year and am up for doing it again. I've been trying to do it on and off for the past few months(I got a journal that I names my thankful journal) but kind of got lazy the past few weeks so this will get me motivated again. It may take me a day or so to catch up. Thanks!
Leah,
I just found you tonight, love your blog. Thank you for letting me join you this month on being thankful. I am so looking forward to learning more about you.
Blessings,
Sue
Hello Leah,
I found you via Vee :). What a wonderful idea, I look forward to keeping up and seeing what others are thankful for.
Blessings,
Kathi :)
I saw this on txmommy's blog--I'm looking forward to participating in this challenge.
What a wonderful idea to remember all I am thankful for the entire month of November. I just couldn't pass up this opportunity. Thank you, & TX Mommy & Yvonne for spreading gratitude like 'wildfire'. They say gratitude unlocks the fullness of life and I just put the key in the lock.
ToOdLeS.ShEiLA
Found this through Xandra @ Heart of Service - What a great idea! I'm in!
Love this idea. Thank you!
Found you through Mel. I was already planning on focusing this month on haveing 'A Thankful Heart'. I'm so glad that your linking everyone so I can see what everyone else is going through and thinking.
Wonderful idea.
This is such a great idea! I found your link on Linda's site. I'll have to link up and start my list tomorrow. God bless you!
thanks so much for doing this again, Leah!
I am new here, but found you by way of dear Vee...
I think this will be a good challenge for me this month.
Hi, I'm new to ur blog. I just love this idea!! Thanks for sharing this with all of us.
Love & Prayers,
Ronda
I found this through Miss Paula's blog.
Count me in!
I came here from Fawndear's. It will be good for me to work on active Thankfulness!
This couldn't have come at a better time. Our teenage son's girlfriend was attacked and raped. He's been having a difficult time dealing with his emotion. My husband and I's hearts are heavy because we cannot kiss and make his and her pain go away.
This is a time when the Lord helps you get through trials and difficulties.
Thanks you for your dedication!
This is going to be great. Thanks for starting this.
Love this idea! I swang by via Alana's blog at A Kiss and a Hug. I am going to start this on my blog today! Thanks for the great idea of being thankful! See - I am thankful right now for you for thinking of this idea! :-)
I'm thankful for creative people who come up with great ideas like this because I just don't have the time myself. May the good Lord richly bless you for doing this!
I'm thankful it was announced that Chesterfield County is officially out of the drought!
Sandi
Thank you for the invite sorry i messed up on Mr Linky
This is a great idea! I'm a little late, but I will certianly be able to find 30 things I am thankful for in the next 30 days!
I'm so glad we're doing it again this year!!!
Xandra
I am a new blogger. Thanks for sharing a way to remember to be thankful every day. Thanks Veronica
I'm in! Thanks for motivating me to focus on my blessings. :-)
Great list of things to be thankful for! Thanks too for stopping by.
What a super idea! Hopefully you end up with a long chain of true thankfulness!
Thank you for reminding us what this month is all about!
Leah,
Thank you so much for letting me know. I am thankful for you!
This is a wonderful way to count our many blessings :)
What a wonderful way to help us become more mindful of the blessings we have been given.
Great idea! I'm in!
this is such a wonderful thing. I have been thinking about it all day and narrowing it down to one thing to be thankful for a day is going to be hard - thankfully!
I love your well rounded list.
What a great idea! I'm all for being Thankful and have participated in Thankful Thursdays. But having a full month is perfect.
I love this idea! So much so that for my 200th post celebration I am focusing on gratitude! Stop by and enter my contest! It's a GREAT GIVE AWAY!!!!
A CHOCOLATE INDULGENCE First Aid Kit!
EVERYONE is invited to enter!!!!!
My first time visit, found you on my sister's blog, "in a garden".
Great idea, I think we all need to do this and be thankful to the Lord for our lives!!!!
what a wonderful idea! i'm joining. thanks for starting this.
Glad to be here. I goofed on my link.
www.lisasramblings.com
This is wonderful! Thanks
Lisa M.
i found you thru alana and i love this idea! thanks.
What a lovely idea! (I found you through Christina at Knitting Mania.)
Thanks for the great idea!
I popped in from Growing With It, and am glad I did!
Oops, I forgot to add blogging to my lst!
:)
What a lovely idea! I found you through Heart Choices. Thanks for hosting this meme.
I'm in! Count me thankful, too.
How wonderful. I always try to teach my children to be aware and grateful each day for even the littlest things so that they become aware of how fortunate we really are. Today, I am grateful to have met wonderful people right on this very blog!
Hi!
Great Idea! I will be joining in. Will be putting this in my side bar. Take Care!!
Sherrie
This is a great reminder for us all! Thank you for doing this!
I think that this is a GREAT idea!
I did thankful post for the whole month of Nov last year and decided to do it again this year....I didn't realize that so many were doing it also! Wow!!
It was a wonderful reminder to me last year to be thankful everyday!
Thanks for a new tradition. Keep me posted. Thanks.
I think this is a fabulous idea. I realize I'm 9 days late... but better late than never. :)
I just found your blog (on 11/10), but I caught up on my thankful items! Great idea! Thanks for hosting it.
~Susan
This is a great idea, I find myself being pessimistic sometimes...this will be a great project for me!
Wow, what a great idea this is! I am impressed with how many people are willing to commit to counting their blessings! I don't have a lot of time to post right now, but I will try to think of a blessing a day (which really should be pretty easy!) even if I don't post it. Thanks for the encouragement.
Great idea! I have been pretty down lately and negative and this will definately help me to look at all the great things I have in my life.
This is great! I'm actually sitting here really thinking about what I'm grateful for. Thanks!
This sounds like a good idea, iIm going to try it
I love this idea! I picked it up from my new bloggie friend at "Growin with it". I am excited to add to it each day...I have so much to be thankful for!
I love this idea!! I'm super late at signing up, but I want to do it all the same. I have so much to be thankful for!!!
I love this. I found it at Sherrie's blog. I want to join in! I'll start today... :)
What a wonderful idea! I am excited to be apart of it! It makes me sad when the Thanksgiving holiday is overlooked.
I'm delighted to have found the link here a Mary, the teach's Work of the Poet. It's a marvelous idea!
Hugs and blessings,
I just found your blog, and think this is a wonderful idea. Thank you for the opportunity to join in. It is a good thing to be thankful for blessings, a good reminder of all God has given to me. God bless.
Hello! I just found your blog, and I'm joining in! I'll be putting my thanksgivings in a sidebar position.
first time visitor-love the idea!
I'm a first-time visitor, too, who found out about you from another participant, my friend Storyteller. :)
What a great idea!! I am little late in getting started but I guess it is never too late to be thankful. :-)
It's never to late to be thankful! I'm joining in! :D
I'm joining too...better late than never to be thankful! Connie
What a blessing. I was angry and logged in to make a list of things I was thankful for to make me feel better and started reading instead and came across this and made me smile and get back on track to my list.
Hi, I don't proclaim to be great at giving thanks...but my blog title is my 'lame' attempt at it. I may not write out something every day, but I am reminded each time I post on my blog to be thankful. I like the concept of this November 'challenge'...we should keep that up all year long, not just at Thanksgiving:)
(As I said, I don't do it often enough, and I need all the reminders I can get:) Jan
I'm joining today
:)
I hope it's not too late
what a great idea!
I'm late, but love this idea. I've already been posting gratitude posts on my blog.
Great idea. I have some catching-up to do!
I found your "Thankful Challenge" via Debbie at Woolen Sails. It's halfway through the month, but I had no trouble catching up because there are so many wonderful things that I am thankful for. This is a wonderful way to remind us of all that we have.
I'm off to work on my list.
Great idea.
Great idea!!! I wish I'd found your challenge BEFORE Thanksgiving Day! Oh well, I did a "Giving Thanks" post today, so I did my best. =0)
Happy thanksgiving to you all!
thanks for the fun!
Just found your challenge today; it was too good NOT to participate!
Thank you!
I enjoyed keeping a daily gratitude list in my sidebar at Small Reflections so much during November, I'm planning to continue the practice during December ... and perhaps beyond. I've shared November's list at my new WordPress blog this morning and will begin the new list tomorrow at Small Reflections. Thanks again for this wonderful idea ;--)
Hugs and blessings,
What a great idea. I grabbed the pic and the idea and put it on my blog as well.
Sometimes I need to be reminded to be thankful for the things that I have going for me.... and not just think about the things that are going wrong.
WOLFIE
I just wanted to say it's been great doing the November challenge. It helped me to focus each day on something for which I'm thankful. I appreciate you starting this. I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Susan
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Blessings Leah... I'm so glad that you are keeping this great THANKFUL tradition going! I came over just to see and LOVE the number of people that are joining in... Counting my blessings along with you! Thanks for hosting this again!!!
Thankful to God for you!
Peggy
Ohhh and I didn't see the BUTTON... am I missing it? or is it not there yet?
Button, button, who's got the button?
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