I am feeling particularly thankful today. I got to wake up this morning to my 4 year old crawling into my bed, snuggling up to my face and saying "I love you" totally unbidden. In the stresses of this roller coaster we call life it can be easy to overlook the small blessings that surround us. The touch of a child's hand, a cool breeze on your face, the beauty of nature and being able to witness the majesty of God's creation.
I am thankful that God brought my husband and I together nearly 20 years ago. It hasn't been easy, marriage never is and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, we have had to fight and scrape our way through, for better and for worse and I'm so thankful that no matter how dark it got we were both too stubborn to give up on each other.
I am thankful that God changed our hearts at exactly the same time when it came to wanting a child. Neither of us wanted kids when we started this journey together. I didn't know why at the time but we both felt the need to start a family at the same moment and I was immediately pregnant. I wouldn't trade our son for anything on this earth. He has enriched our lives and made things harder too but so worth it.
I am thankful that I listened to that inner voice that I didn't have a name for yet when it told me to go sign up for Bible Study Fellowship. God placed me in the exact right group at the exact right time and my healing journey began. And I am beyond thankful and honored that I have gotten to hear that voice a few times since and know it now as the Holy Spirit himself. Thankful that He told me to get up out of my seat and share my testimony to that room full of women, alone because He was there with me. Not everyone gets gifted with hearing the actual voice of God. He probably just knew that was what it would take for me to break free from my prison of fear and anxiety.
I'm thankful for that healing because it has enabled me to advocate for my family and actually live life! I feel like there are no longer limitations on what I can accomplish and I know that if my son needs me to fight for him or stand up for him that I can actually do it without hesitation. I actually kind of think that this is why I was healed in the first place but truly only God knows His purposes.
I'm thankful for the friends and family that have always been around and for the new friends I have made along the way.
I'm thankful for my church for it feeling like my home away from home. I seriously would spend every day there if I could. The pastors and the staff there are all such amazing, beautiful people and I just wish I could drag everyone I know there with me!
I'm sure there are countless more things to be thankful for but there is one that is greater than any other. I'm thankful for Jesus Christ, my savior and my redeemer. My Father in heaven, my Abba, my one and only Creator. The Holy Spirit that lives within me, my guide and my comforter. All of these in One. Without which, I wouldn't exist, nothing would exist. He gave it all for us. He left His throne and walked among us. He was tortured and crucified on the cross of our transgressions because of His unending love for us, His children.
Thank you Jesus, may I live my life for you always!
-As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. This is My command to you: Love one another. John 15:9-17
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