I hope you all are having a wonderful beginning to your Thanksgiving Week.  It sure has went by fast!  We will be visiting the In-Laws tomorrow so I thought I'd like to take the time to list some of the things I am thankful for today. 

I am thankful for my salvation.  I think my appreciation grows exponentially as I understand more about God, His word, His son and the more I am aware of what "LOST" means, having once been there and how at the time I didn't realize it. 

I am thankful for my family.  As many know my daughter had a rough start to life this past spring.   We were able to witness an awe inspiring miracle through her many life threatening ailments.  We got to see the power of prayer, an extended family emerge before us all having Christ as the center of their lives.  We were able to see God glorified in the touching of our daughter and a complete and total turn around from where she was on the brink of death to full and wonderful health.  We are SOOO thankful.  Nothing could ever repay God for what we know He has given to us and thankfully He does not ask us to.  But we can thank Him and proclaim His miracle to us to others.  And so we shall!!!

I'm also ever so thankful for the friends and friendships that we have been blessed with this year.  I'd love to thank everyone by name but will reserve myself to saying "YOU know who you are!" =) 

I'm very thankful for the health of my family and myself.  It is one of those great blessings that a person takes for granted until they no longer have it.  Thank God for the ailments I have had over the past few years!  That may sound odd, but I would have never thought so deeply, cared so much or held on so tight without my physical struggles.  Someone once said something like... Until we are facing the surety of death, we cannot know how to live.  It puts all things quickly into perspective.  Your no longer worried about giving the kids an iPod, or a Wii for Christmas...but trying to convey your deepest desires that they will come to know their own need of Christ as their savior and how much you love them in a notebook somewhere. 

I do not think that I would be doing justice to the wisdom that God has imparted to me this year if I should fail to mention how thankful I am for my husband.  I just spent a quarter of this year digging deeply into my role as a wife and in doing so really learned so much about my husband...many thing I never knew, many things I had known but forgotten or taken for granted and a few things I would have never known any other way than by looking at my role through a biblical perspective.  We've been married for 14 years and we are still newlyweds!!!!  Everyday is a new adventure with my Visionary man.  =)      {Study: Created To Be His Helpmeet--Debi Pearl}

Those are the biggies.  I have so many other things to be thankful and wouldn't want you to think I don't like my home, my van, my electricity and water or my dog. ;)   I don't want to take anything for granted.  Each day is MY Thanksgiving Day!

~Jo  (singing)  "Count your blessings, name them one by one.  Count your blessings, see what God has done!"