Thanksgiving

So here is a new blog. I know I never wrote on the other one but I think I am going to try and write a little bit more, it relieves stress and I enjoy it, and I think I may enjoy using this one more, cause the other one was kind of a pain (I’m not copying anyone I promise).

So anyway, it is thanksgiving, or at least it was yesterday since it is currently 2:12 a.m. on Black Friday. So as I sit here, not really wanting to go to sleep, I think about the last year, and all I have to be thankful for, and so in no particular order:

The ability to go to school where I want to. As I get older and the “real world” looms ever closer I realize how lucky I am to have been blessed to go to UMHB for the last 2 1/2 years and will be able to continue to go there through graduation. God has blessed my family and I with financial stability and that is something that I am well aware some of my peers do not have.

The job I love at the church. I love being the intern at Canyon Creek, it is absolutely the right place for me. I sometime get asked why I don’t try to be the intern at the churches that all my friends go to, and I know that God has put me here at Canyon Creek for a reason and that is really cool. It’s not a perfect place by any means, and the ministry I have has struggles just like everything else in life, but I would not trade what I get to do with those junior and senior students for anything.

My family who supports me. I have an awesome family. They support me in everything I do and have brought me up in a way that i know a lot of people my age were not brought up. My family is even more special to me this year because I realize the mortality of it all. Having both of my grandpas with some pretty big health problems this fall as really opened my eyes to the fact that these two men who are two of my biggest heroes are still mortal, and that one day they will pass away to heaven, and that kind of scared me. That’s what made today all the more special getting to sit down with both of them and spend time together watching the Cowboys kick some butt. My parents are also really great. I am so thankful for all they have done for me throughout life, but especially since I have gone away to college. My parents have a really cool ability to treat me like an adult and let me handle my own business, while still giving me advice that only parents can give, and all the while loving me, even if they are frustrated with what I am doing or not doing. My family is truly one of a kind and I am so thankful for all of them, and I didn’t even mention everyone.

My amazing girlfriend. I am not normally one to get really sappy or whatever like that, but I really am very thankful for Janie. She has kept me incredibly stable in the past year when things were tough. She has also been a really great encouragement to me this year with all the stuff she has gone through with her family, and how she remained strong and focused on the Lord through it all. She is easily one of the strongest people emotionally that I know. I am also very thankful for our relationship, which has grown a lot in just one year. I have learned a lot from her, and I will continue to learn a lot from her. I am so thankful that our relationship is deep, and I don’t mean for that to sound weird, but what I mean is that our relationship is not about holding hands and being the “cute couple,” but we try to make focused on God. Even in our conversations we try to make it deeper than just “I love you,” but we try to talk about deep things, and that is just really cool to me.

” I will praise the name of God with a song;I will magnify him with thanksgiving.” Psalm 69:30

I really need to work on living life with a more thankful attitude towards God. I think a lot of the time I try to make my life seem really bad, and while there are bad things in my life as there are in everyone’s, I need to be constantly reminded that I am truly blessed, and that a lot of people would love to have just a few of the blessing I have, and I don’t say that to boast, I say that from a place of thanks to God Almighty who has blessed my life even though I am so undeserving. The Father of the Universe as given me a great life, and I need to not complain so much.