What form of expression are you most grateful for?
Writing. I can’t always express myself very well when I speak but I think I do a good job when I am writing. At least I hope I do.
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What moment this week are you most grateful for?
I am really grateful for the whole last week, Wednesday to Sunday, that we spent with family – first mine and then Ben’s. The whole time was amazing. We went to Silver Dollar City, ate Thanksgiving dinner with about 40 members of my late father’s family, walked in the woods, spent time beside water, geocached, cooked out, and did all kinds of marvelous things.
I think the moment I am most grateful for was the first day in Missouri, when I went out by the lake and walked on this little trail all by myself, then went on the dock and looked at the water. It was so beautiful, and peaceful. I sat on a bench for a long time. I just kind of meditated, and prayed, and took some pictures, and just relaxed and spent some time in nature.
Oh, and the number two moment I am grateful for is when the roller coaster I was on at Silver Dollar City turned out to not go upside down, even though it appeared to after it had begun.
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What challenge are you grateful for?
This one?
I don’t know. Maybe every challenge I’ve had in my life. Cause all those challenges have served to make me the person I am today, and I wouldn’t change who I am for anything. Even when sucky things have happened in my past, I wouldn’t change it. All those experiences were for a reason, even if it’s not something I fully understand. That’s okay. I don’t have to.
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What tradition are you grateful for?
Christmas?
Does that count?
I do like Christmas quite a bit. I like decorating and the tree and cards and the meal and all that business. It’s hectic but I like it anyway. And I keep learning how to make it a little less about commercialism and flashiness and more about the reason for the season. I also like the other winter holidays, like Hanukkah and the Twelve Days of Christmas and New Years and keeping spiritual thing at the forefront. I like that a lot.
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What story are you most grateful for?
The Christmas story. The one that begins with an angel visiting a young woman with unbelievable news and ends with a newborn King. Or maybe it ends thirty-some odd years later, on Easter morning. Or maybe it hasn’t ended yet and will continue forevermore. Yeah. That one.
Honestly, it really is the most important one to me, even if that sounds ignorant or whatever.
After that I’d guess I’m most grateful for the first novel I completed, Pairs.
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What song are you most grateful for?
I don’t know. It varies a lot. Christian songs. I really like listening to Christian radio. The songs really seem to relate to me and what I am dealing with. There’s one called “Thy Will Be Done” that’s on the radio quite a bit right now that helped me through some difficult times. And I also like the song “God Help Me.” It really speaks to me. Sometimes I sing along and I feel almost like I am expressing my own thoughts to God as a prayer of my own. I like that.
Anyway…
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Twenty things! That’s a lot to be grateful for. Even if these are freaking weird.
So…what’s on the agenda for this post?
Who in your life are you grateful for?
Whoa. That’s a big one. And it’s a good one. A real one.
And a hard one. Because it’s basically endless. I’m thankful for so many people in my life, and I don’t want to just select one because how can I choose? And I don’t want to do a big list because I will definitely forget someone.
Dang. My family. My friends. People who love my kids. People who Ben works with. People we homeschool with, and go to church with, and do theatre and dance and martial arts with. My writing friends. My online friends. My school friends.
It’s impossible.
My mom. I’ll go with that. I am thankful for my mom.
And everyone else.
Seriously, you all, I am really, really blessed. All joking aside, it’s pretty mind-blowing. <3
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Thanksgiving is over, and the month of thankfulness is nearly complete. Even though I’ve been weird about when I actually have done these posts, I’m glad that I’m getting them done. I don’t consider myself too behind because I made the conscious decision not to take the computer on our trips to see family over the holidays. We had a nice time.
Anyway. Back to the grind.
What touch are you thankful for today?
I find this one weird. I find a lot of these weird, actually. Maybe next year I should go back to my own ideas instead of using something like this. But I want to finish what I’ve started.
Does this mean like the feel of something? Like fabric? Didn’t I already do one like that? Or like touched in the head? Ha ha.
Well, honestly, I’m thankful for the times that I am very still and quiet and I meditate on God and I can feel His spirit infusing my body with peace, joy, and love. And I don’t know if that’s what this question was asking and I don’t care.
Ta-da
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What piece of art are you thankful for?
Prince Hans from Frozen.
And The Fox by Ylvis.
Lol
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What knowledge are you grateful for?
More than anything, I am grateful that Jesus Christ died for my sins and through His gift of forgiveness, I have received eternal life.
I really do believe this, even though I know it’s not very PC to feel this way and that many people probably feel that I am foolish or that Christians are judgmental, bad people. But I just do my best every day to follow Christ’s example and to follow His commandments. Love God and love others. That’s what it is all about and that’s what is the most important to me. And eternal life doesn’t just mean that I believe a tale that I will go to heaven and play a harp on a cloud. It means that I am already in an eternity of choosing to worship God. Trusting in Him and loving Him is the most important thing in the world to me, and it gives me direction and purpose.
That’s about it for this one.