Today’s theme for counting gifts is three gifts falling:

1. the legs of my youngest, still six years old for a few more days yet, rising and falling as she kicks on the swing in the backyard

2. the fallen leaves we trace with oil pastels for art lessons this morning

3. our friends’ two-month-old baby boy falling asleep in my arms

Every day in October I’ll post three gifts using the Joy Dare calendar from A Holy Experience).  I invite you to add your own gifts in the comment section and then hop over to (in)Courage to read Ann Voskamp’s post “One of the Key Secrets about Joy.”