I'm back on facebook! And I'm having a rather strange thanksgiving. My family hosts every year, (very rarely we'd go to my grandparents, but) I always have spent it with my family. My mom has the same nasty cold that I did about a week and a half ago.
Nonetheless, (i love that that is one word) I am thinking, as I like to each year, about what I'm thankful for. And so it begins:
-I think this year, the very first thing that comes to mind as a catchall is finding my church, Mercy Vineyard. I have met so many fantastic people through this church, and God has been doing things through me and in me non-stop since I've started going there. I went from a 1 & 1/2 year hiatus from church to not missing a sunday since January. We will probably come back to the awesome people I've met. (see second to last hyphen)
-I just found out Scrubs is doing one more season? I feel like this is only a farse, but I'm stoked about it anyways. Apparently December 1st. haha...how it got on this list...?
-I'm thankful for the experiences I've had this year. That is a really roundabout way of saying it, yes, but it's also the best way to say it. I've gone through so much horrible stupid crap this year, but I know that it(to be completely cliche here) made me who I am right at this moment. It made me learn more trust, and to be more carefree, and helped me realize even more that PEOPLE are the only things that matter in this life. Amen? Amen.
-I really love my in-laws...no, I'm not married. But I am referring to the wonderful appendages of my siblings. That is the simple way of putting it. I like them; they are great.
-New relationships of all kinds: ones that got better, even ones that have hit rough patches. I'm so thankful for them all!
-This may sound dumb, but I am amused and amazed by many simple things in life and two of them are senses:
-sight
-hearing
like I said, it sounds dumb, but I'm always thankful for music, and beauty, but I wouldn't know either of those things if not for something I take for granted on an all too regular basis.
back to less serious things...
-coffee. One of life's simple -but expensive- pleasures.
-As always, and I fear the day I'm not thankful for this, laughter. Man, I love to laugh. I love that whole other kind of peace that comes over you after a good laugh. Mmm!
from there...
-I am so utterly thankful for my best friend Sara! God has strengthened and blessed both of us, more than we would've imagined back in our sophomore year of high school, at the beginning of our friendship. Really. She is definitely amongst the greatest people I've ever known, a great example to me of a woman in Christ. I have to stop myself now or I'll rant eternally and no one will read this.
-And I am thankful for my sick mother, not the fact that she is sick, but for her. Cause when she's sick, there's no party. When she's sick, the gears stop turning. She is magnificent. And CRAZY, and I know I will be her someday...and that makes me excited to have a daughter someday, and to see more of life. She's magnificent.
-Okay, back to the people. I have met so many great people, mostly in some way through my church. Those people, there's not enough to say. They are clever, witty, creative, caring, sympathetic, (pathetic - jk), I could toss a list of great adjectives out there about these people. Pretty much, if I've tagged you in here and you go to Mercy or I met you through someone from Mercy, I am immensely thanking God for you in my life today. All of you have been great, in big and small ways, and God has definitely blessed me with knowing you. People who would invite me to their house on thanksgiving when I have no plans, and people I would gladly have invited if I were having a dinner! That is only a tiny piece of the love, right there :)
-Finally, I am thankful for grace. It's one of those things that there's not much to say about. It stands alone; speaks for itself. It is amazing alone without a bundle of words to try and make it more so.
Happy Thanksgiving 2009, everyone!!!
