November’s Songs of Praise and Thanks Series. Today’s choice is different in that it is easy to be thankful when life is easy. But I chose this song “The Goodness of God” because for me this song when I sing it at church is a “sacrifice of praise” because it is still hard 8 years after to be at peace with the loss of our home to wildfire in 2017. In the photos you can see the car that we left on the driveway with what’s left of the chimney and house behind. The photo of rubble is from where my new art studio was; you can see the blue paint. The cross and cherub were found although I can’t remember what happened to them. I don’t have them so not sure if they just got trashed. I am grateful to God for saving our lives the night the fire rushed through our neighborhood and I can see good things that have happened since, but it is still hard. I hope this encourages someone today who may be going through hard things. For me today, the main thing we were able to save that night was our little dachshund Pismo, who today at 14 1/2 is having health issues. But we have at least had him for 14 1/2 years.

This praise song was written in 2019 by a group of people.