Thankful- Full of thanks

I am thankful for food, for daily food, for food that is fresh, healthy,and delicious. I can eat or not eat whatever type of food my money can buy, and sometimes I just eat something for the comfort or taste and not because I'm hungry. I am thankful that I do not go starving, never knowing when I'm going to eat again.

I am thankful for a house, I am thankful for a home. It is a safe place, it is in a quiet, beautiful neighborhood. There are no gangs, no violence, no bombs, no shotting... it's quiet, you can hear children laughing and playing in the park. I am thankful that any drug sales that have happened in the park across from my house has not involved any of my family. I live in not just any house, I live in a nice house. The cooling works, the heating works, the foundation is good, I have electricity, running water, indoor plumbing, ( I just took a shower with warm water) another luxury I have so often taken for granted.

I am thankful for clothes, nice clothes, warm clothes, I am thankful I have enough clothes to give away half of them and still have enough to last me for the next year.
I am thankful for shoes, I am thankful the shoes I have are comfortable, my size, good looking, and I have quiet a few of them to choose from.

I am thankful for family. Some have family that it would be better to separate from because of their detrimental behavior, but my family is the healthiest thing for my life. My parents are wonderful, my two older brothers, John and Matt, are wonderful, all my sisters are wonderful, my niece is wonderful... I cannot survive without them. I have not cherished and loved them as I should, I hope I can do a good job conveying to them how much I truly love them.

I am thankful that I do not have soldiers and what not barging into my house and taking my father and mother or taking my older brothers and forcing them into their army, or promising my sisters jobs and a better life and then selling them into the sex slave industry.

I am thankful for medicine and knowledge on proper sanitation. I am thankful for clean places to go to the bathroom, for soap and water readily dispensable to me.

I am thankful that I, as a girl, have the right to attend school. I can learn anything I want and pursue whatever career I feel like pursuing.

I am thankful I have legs to walk, I can run, I can jump, I can do most anything on my own (except spread my arms and fly). I am thankful I have arms, I am thankful I have all my body parts and all of them function properly and not one tooth is without its pair. I have all my hair, my muscles are strong, my skin is good- I am perfectly healthy.

I am thankful for choice, choice in anything, the choice to live, the choice to do.

I am thankful I can chose whom I am going to marry, no matchmaker, no parents, no preacher pastor, just me and my honey-we chose each other-.

I am thankful I can see, hear, taste, smell and touch- it is glorious and I can't imagine life without one of them. I am thankful I am not mute. Sometimes it would be better for me, I would get in less trouble, but God is teaching me how to control my tongue and one day maybe others will be thankful I am not mute either.

I am thankful I can read and write. I am a horrible speller and I do not read very well aloud, but those are both things that can be fixed with my will to practice and improve myself.

I am thankful my parents are not poor and they can support all seven of us young adults and one baby (in some shape or form).

I am thankful we have the back cottage for Matt and Jenni to stay in for their first year of marriage. I am so glad they did not move far away.

I am thankful for friends, dear friends, here mostly anyone I met can be my friend- it is something not to be taken for granted.

Lord, why me?, why me?, I have so much and I never take the time to thank you for it. I'm still not done, there is so much to thank you for. It is so mind boggling to think of everything that I have and to think on those who have none of these things and I am humbled before you. It reminds me of what you said, "To whom much is given, much will be expected of him"

5-11-10
I just want to continue praising you. I am so thankful for the lap top my parents bought me. I am thankful my family has the money for cars. I am thankful for music, I am thankful that I was born into a family that taught me about God. On top of that not only brought me to church and taught me at home, but my parents lived it out for me.
I am thankful that my parents did not separate even though they had a lot of struggles while we were growing up. I am so so thankful that they did not break their covenant with God, with each other, with us kids. They have been faithful to one another and even though I once thought that they should separate- God has brought us through this in one piece and for that I am eternally grateful.

I am thankful I live in the U.S. I am thankful I live in California, I am thankful I live in Turlock. I am thankful that God changes my position in life when ever He wants me some where different. I am thankful I can trust Him.

I am thankful for every person I have ever met and for every person that I will one day meet.Even with people that things have happened that i wished never happened- all of it is for my good to learn from life, and for that I rejoice.

I am thankful for my mother. She is so wonderful. She really should have been born with eight arms because she tries to conquer her world of chores and duties each day and I love her for her heart and passion to help others.

I am thankful for my father. He is noble. I am thankful for our prayer walks together, for the way he gives advice, the way he stays calm in stressful situations. I am thankful for his hugs that he gives me when I'm in a bad mood and he loves me into a good mood.

I am thankful for God's plan. He has a plan for me. I am so glad God knows what He is doing with me, 'cause I sure don't know what I'm doing.

I am thankful that I have committed a year to being single. It was all God's idea for me not to date anyone in 2010. Since I have not been single for any substantial amount of time since I was 16; and I'm 22 now- this is a most refreshing state to find myself in. I want to find out what God's calling is for me I'm tired of just sitting like a bump on a log in life. I am thankful God has the power to use my life for something useful.