There has been a lot of sadness in my church lately. We have had people taking their lives into their own hands, people that I loved, and it has really got me thinking about looking at the more positive things in life. People always say "what would you do if you woke up and tomorrow you only had the things that you thanked God for the day before"...well let me tell you I would have had nothing left today. I have really been trying to take this to heart and truly thanking God for everything I have in my life, even the annoying things:
Thank you for my car, even though sometimes it doesnt always want to start, it is something that allows me to get around
Thank you for my job and the people that i work with (all of them), granted there are a few that i am not always thankful for there are those few like (Dee, Jenny,Danielle, Carolyn, Serene, Kelsey, Jen, and more) that I would hate to have to make it through the workday without.
Thank you for my family. That is something that I always seem to leave out or think of last. The people that put up with the majority of my long stories, crappy jokes, and horrible attitude i tend to pay the least amount of attention to them. I always seem to have something better to do then spend time with my sisters or help around the house. My mom always says that I am their role model and it really hit me the other day when my sister said that if she could be anyone else she would want to be me...wow serious reality check. I need to invest so much more time in doing fun things with them and just showing them that I am interested in what they have to tell me, no matter how long it may take, and show them that I want to spend time with them.
This definitely isnt a sufficient list of all the things that i am thankful for but it is the things that have been on the fore front of my mind lately. So, if you went to bed tonight and only woke up with the things that you thanked God for the day before...what would you have left?
Final thought:
I am not thankful for the speech I have to give in 9 hours...
May God bless you wherever you are today
XO Abby
