Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for friendship. I am thankful for the friends I have in my life who know me, know my faults, and love me as I am. I am thankful for friends who pick up right where we left off and laugh until our stomachs hurt.

 I have been blessed to know and love some incredible women in my life and I am so grateful for their faithfulness over the years. I may not call as much as I like, or write as often as I should, but our friendship still remains. 

My wedding day was one of the best days of my life for several reasons, but one of them was that I finally had all of my friends together again. The night before my wedding was like one big reunion and I wish I could relive that night over and over again. 

True friendships are hard to find, and I am thankful for the ones I have. 

Thankful Thursday

Credit: Southern Disposition

Tis the season for thankfulness. As I reflect over the last year, I have so much to be thankful for. Of course, marriage, a great job, family and friends are all a part of what I'm thankful for, true thankfulness stems much further than that.

While I am thankful for all of the material things I have been blessed with and the relationships I have formed the last two years in Virginia, I am so much more thankful for the Lord's continued faithfulness. I so often get caught up in who I am, and I forget who Jesus is. I look inward to solve problems rather than looking to Jesus. I seek comfort and value in the opinion of others, rather than being assured by the knowledge that I am a child of God. 

Today I am thankful for the Lord's continued grace. While I admit to seeking satisfaction and approval in others, He supplies Jesus, the one who has already approved of me and made me one of His own. While I continue to become aware of my selfish motivations, He provides the grace to forgive and the solution, Jesus. 

Cheer up. You are worse than you know. But you are far more loved than you could ever imagine.