21 Reasons I am Thankful on my 21st

1. I am thankful for God’s miraculous beauty that comes alive at this time of the year. Fall brings peace to my soul.
2. I am thankful for over-sized t-shirts, leggings and boots.
3. I am thankful for a warm place to sleep in.
4. I am thankful for my family, that thy fight for me and encourage.
5. I am thankful that I get to worship freely everyday.
6. I am thankful that I get to live in a community of believers.
7. I am thankful for best friends and the Truth that pours off their tongues, daily.
8. I am thankful for the relationships I am so blessed to have with international students.
9. I am thankful for freedom—thankful that He is making me new.
10. I am thankful for pictures, with pale faces against bright fall leaves, and the memories they represent.
11. I am thankful for adulthood, beginning today.
12. I am thankful for pumpkin everything—bread, muffins, cookies, candles, waffles.
13. I am thankful for God’s Word being life to my dying soul.
14. I am thankful for the hope that I have.
15. I am thankful for my education, no matter how much it takes out of me some days.
16. I am thankful for my daughters, the way He has so perfectly placed them in my life for this season of time, the way they love me so well, the way we get to do life togther, all that they have taught me.
17. I am thankful for belly laughter with dear friends.
18. I am thankful for Jesus Christ and the death He died in my place, making a way for me that I never could have earned on my own.
19. I am thankful for my spiritual families, who have so graciously adopted me intimately into their lives, training me up in godliness.
20. I am thankful for God’s provision in my life daily.
21. I am thankful that His ways ALWAYS far exceed anything I could ever ask or imagine. Oh, is He faithful to complete the good work He began!