Fleas!!! Days 20 - 24

20. Thursday was an awesome day full of things to be thankful for. So, mostly, I will just say that I am thankful for celebrations and everything that they entail. From the thrill of seeing a long-planned project come together, to the simple joy of consuming delicious foods made by good friends and the laughter and smiles and silly anecdotes. Thursday was a medley celebration pot-luck at Christian Challenge. It was also the longest day of my life. But it was fun!

21. Friday, also a long day, I am thankful for a special family. I saw some friends on Friday that I have missed. A family with whom I was very close, and am now barely connected. So I am thankful for them despite our somewhat strained relationship.

22. On Saturday, I was very grateful for Mrs. Caroll Brown Swinney. She was my high school theatre teacher, and as a chaperon for the thespian festival, I was so grateful for her continuing influence in my life, and for her stand against moral compromise amid the craziness of performing arts.

23. Sunday we talked about being thankful for the "bad" things or fleas in life. So, I will be thankful for the people who are daily teaching me patience through their lack of kindness and giving me an opportunity to share the concept of unconditional love.

24. Today, I am thankful for things that beep. I hate them so much, and often wish that I could live in a world without alarm clocks and kitchen timers. There are at least half a dozen beeping apliances at my house. Thankfully they have probably prevented some terrible things in my life.

Thanks!

Okay, so today, day 19, I am thankful for Education. That may sound silly, but I really have been trying to focus on all the things that I am least thankful for and turning them around to see why God has brought them to me. So, as I finish up my silly essay about how Hinduism relates to "The Matrix", I write down my praise to God for allowing me the opportunity to learn more about how others think so that I may reach them for His sake. So I am thankful.

Thankful for...

Day 18:
I am thankful that God has decided that He will use me for His service. I am thankful that He sees me as worthy of persecution. I am thankful that my ability to serve God is in no way based on my ability.
Right now, I am trying and trying and trying to do the right thing. Over and over I am reminded that I need to just let go and trust that God can do this (with or without me) and that He has chosen me as the vessel.
Thank you, God for choosing me. I don't know why You did, but you did.

I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed what God has planned.
I only know at his right hand
Stands One who is my Savior.