Thankful

In a few hours I will be taking baby boy on his first airplane trip ever! We are so very excited! Since I will not be in the blogging world for Thanksgiving, I decided to write a little something something for the event.

Oh Give Thanks, Unto the Lord; For He is Good, Yes He is Good!

I have lots to be thankful for this year.

1. I am thankful for my life, it could have been taken from me in the blink of an eye.
2. I am thankful for my son, I love him so very much and he truly is my joy.
3. I am thankful for salvation, I know in this world it is very easy to get bogged down with all the doom and gloom. However, my salvation gives me hope and lets me know it won't always be this way.
4. I am thankful for my Bible. Now this one surprised me, I have been making a conscience decision to read the Bible. Yesterday after reading I laid it down, last night I HAD to find it. Makes you think how long I took it for granted.
5. I am thankful for my family. All of my family, the beloved ones and the ones I wouldn't claim as mine and the ones I get frustrated and annoyed with.
6. I am thankful that my needs are met. I know it seems like a predictable run through for people to say they are thankful for their food, house, clothes, bed, running water, heat/air. But the truth of the matter is, there are those that don't have these things.
7. I am thankful that I have purpose in life. Thankful that I'm not just a knot of a log that pulled itself together from primordial ooze.
8. I am thankful for my church family. When you join a family of believers and become committed to them, things are surprisingly different.
9. I am thankful for true friends. I am not the easiest person to get along with at times, and I am thankful I have people that will stick by me.
10. I am thankful that God is God. YHWH (Yaweh) is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. So many things in life change, for good or bad, but God does not change, his word does not change and the way he sees us does not change. He always loves us and longs for a relationship with us.

For he has turned my mourning into DANCING,

and he has turned my sorrow inot JOY!