Thankful

1. Warm, sunny days in November
2. Companionship - both the Lord's and the relationships he provides this side of heaven
3. Family who love Christ
4. Family who love to laugh
5. Food, delicious food
6. Music to listen to, to play, and to sing
7. Dogs
8. Jesus - without whom none of these others would matter
9. Prayer
10. Peace
11. Joy - the right to choose joy as a child of God
12. Blankets and quilts
13. Jackets and coats
14. Coffee
15. Peppermint-mocha creamer
16. Pumpkin pie
17. Teddy bears
18. Computers, email, and even facebook
19. my car
20. the ability to run
21. the freedom and safety to worship in public
22. resources to pay for an education
23. biochemistry
24. airplanes
25. college
26. Bible
27. how the Bible is consistent and interconnected and teaches me something new each day
28. parents who love each other
29. examples of working marriages around me
30. God's protection - especially when it comes to my heart lately
31. God's provision with respect to medical school applications
32. doctors to operate on my eyes
33. my sight and all my other senses
34. supportive family
35. friends that challenge my faith, press me closer to Christ
36. sigma phi lambda
37. BCM
38. UBC
39. Hunter's Glen
40. moving to Plano
41. going to school in Arkansas
42. knowing how to speak and write English
43. sunrises and sunsets
44. twinkling stars in the sky
45. the beauty of a snowflake
46. autumn leaves
47. saving faith
48. His grace and mercy
49. building sand castles
50. the One who holds tomorrow (and the faith to trust him)

Psalm 84:11

Life is not about me
but oh, how selfish I can be

Conclusions and assumptions and expectations
I make
Without the facts
With somewhat less reality to back
these thoughts.

Your timing is not mine
What a blessing
and a challenge to my selfish nature
to wait
to submit
to rest in His arms and His plan.

Slow down those anxious thoughts
take them captive
let truth triumph and saturate those
quick conclusions,
deceptive daydreams.

By focusing on them, I am living as if God is holding out on me,
as if something else that I can manipulate is better.
Psalm 84:11 "...no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly."
1 John 2:15-16