Thankful

I'm thankful for . . .

My Salvation- which I'm constantly reminded that I dont deserve and cannot earn (God please continue to show me this)

My family- I cant wait to see my family over Christmas! It's been a year since I've been home!

My friends- friends are SO important to me! I have been blessed with Amazing friends in my life! My MB friends- I love you and miss you so much! My TX friends- you have made TX feel like home! And my BFF, my D and my Jen --> words just can't express!

My job- how blessed am I that I Love the people that I work with! It's more like a family than a workplace.

My puppies- Yes, they are the twinkle of my eye! Many of you have expressed concern for my babies when Jen and I leave for Thailand. My parents are going to take in my little Darling's!

My church- I Love my church! Every Sunday is so uplifting and so encouraging! My pastor loves TRUTH and isn't afraid of it. I love that about him! And the band just plain ROCKS!

BSF- I love my BSF! I'm so sad they don't have a class in Chiang Mai :( I'm going to miss doing it! I've been doing it for almost 7 years now!

Being Healthy- for the first time in my life, I like to exercise! My BFF of 24 years tells me it's still weird to hear me say that! I'm a sleeper, not a worker! But the Lord used those times of triathlon training to really swing the pendulum the other way, for the first time! And I'm determined to let Him keep it there!

You know, when the snake tricked Eve in the garden into eating that apple, he was using "the oldest trick in the book" LITERALLY! He was getting her to take All of her focus off of Everything she DID have, and only focus on the ONE thing she didn't have. Because of that ONE thing, her life was Horrible! Ruined! Nothing was worth anything because she didn't have this one thing . . . he still does it to us today.
So I'm just as thankful for all the small things as I am the big things. And my prayer is that I will continue to focus on all the things God has blessed me with; and that I wouldn't dwell on the few things I don't have. Besides- if God wanted me to have them, I would! So it's for the best that I don't!