Today I am thankful for good food. It’s Thanksgiving Day and people all around the country are sitting down with family and friends to eat turkey and ham and dressing and green bean casserole and cranberry sauce. Although I am not with my family today, I am with good friends who welcome me like family and we are eating very good food.
Today I am thankful for my family. In 2010, my husband and I got married and started our family just the two of us. We did not know if our little family of two would ever be three or four or more. Today our little family has grown to the two of us plus a toddler and a baby. It’s pretty great and I am very grateful for our family of four and I am looking forward to seeing just how big our family will get!
Today I am thankful for my health. I sometimes forget about the journey I went through a few years back with my health. I often take for granted the fact that I’m alive. But the truth of the matter is that my life is a miracle. My children’s lives are miracles. We are all healthy and able bodied and I am so very very grateful for that.
Today I am thankful for Texas. I am thankful for the weather. This weekend it got silly cold but for most of the year, the weather is warm and delightful. I suppose it does get a bit too hot sometimes during the summer but I would rather jump in a pool than bundle up in jackets any day.
I am also thankful for the history here. I love that we used to be our own country. I love the story of the Alamo and of Jane Long and of Davy Crockett.
I love that bluebonnets are the state flower and armadillos are the state animal and pecan trees are the state trees. I love the pine trees in the east and the desert in the west. I love that you cannot find good Tex Mex anywhere but here. I love HEB and Dr. Pepper and What-a-burger.
For the month of November, I’m going to post one thing I’m thankful for each day. Today, I am thankful for Who I am thankful to. I’m grateful to Jesus for everything I have: my kids, my husband, my family, my church, everything.
Above all else, I am thankful for my salvation. Christ died on the cross even though He was innocent. He paid the price for my sins (and yours too) and then rose from the dead, conquering death. The only step I had to take was to believe.
James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
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