Thanksgiving

While a lot of us will reflect over the year and our "thankfuls" today.  I want to share.  I have not played the thankful game on FB this year, but that does not mean I am not thankful! 

It is these holidays that I miss my mom the very most.  Holidays are just not the same anymore...not as fun...  Time for new traditions, a new kind of fun. 

But I am thankful for what she instilled in me...for my heritage.

I am thankful for my husband.  I am so glad that God put us together.  I cannot imagine...don't want to imagine...life without him.  He has helped me through so many of my insecurities.  He knows when I am uncomfortable in a situation and why.  He is my sounding board (bless his heart), He truly completes me.  I am forever thankful for him.

I am thankful for my 3 wonderful boys.  They each have their strong points that makes me appreciate them on an individual level.  I love all my men! ;)

I am thankful for a home, warmth, roof, food, clothes, shoes...everything that God has given me.

I am thankful for Jesus.  Where would we be without him?

I am thankful...SOOO thankful...for my church family.  There have been a lot of "voids", this year especially, and they so have filled in those gaps!  I think this has been the most difficult year of our married life (and I don't mean between David and I, just life circumstances) and my dear church family has been right there beside us, encouraging us and helping us along...when others have forsaken us and left us behind in their dust!  I cannot express what they have come to mean to me!

I am thankful for a place to get my soul fed...that lives what they teach!  Oh I could go on and on and on.  There is just so much to be thankful for.  And once you get started it's kind of hard to stop! 

I truly have many blessings to count today!  Don't you?  Have a truly blessed Thanksgiving!

Still,

Waiting...

When you are I am waiting for an exciting shipment from UPS and they don't come and don't come and don't come...and you have "waited" all day...(Like I am doing right now)  Sometimes it gets frustrating, and tiring just waiting.  It's like "Ok, I know it's coming just come already!"  I want to unpack the package and organize it NOW, not at supper time...or bed time! 

Now, what am I waiting on?  I am waiting on an Uppercase Living order for one thing.  But I am also waiting for my new shipment of LuLaRoe skirts/leggings! (You can like my Facebook Page here.)

 But back to the topic at hand.  When you know something is coming you are like why can't it come already?  Well, lets see...there could be different reasons...
1.  Maybe, just maybe there are some deliveries before me.  I have to wait my turn.
2.  Maybe the delivery got delayed by unforeseen issues...and accident that tied him up, a lonely little old widow talked to him for an hour.
3.  There are a million things that could happen, but I don't want to just surmise...

Bottom line...I know the package is coming.  The Tracking Number tells me it is coming today...it's on the truck for delivery!

Now let me retell this story...

 

When I am waiting on an exciting answer/delivery/package from God and it doesn't come and it doesn't come and doesn't come...I have waited all day...week...month...year...whatever the case may be.  (Like I am doing right now)



Sometimes it gets frustrating, and tiring just waiting.  It's like "Ok, I know it's coming just come already!"  I want to enjoy it now...I don't like the unknown...I WANT it NOW, not at supper time...or bed time...or tomorrow...or next week.  I KNOW it's coming so come already!

Now there was a KEY word in this scenario...KNOW  When you KNOW it's coming.  When you know something is coming you are like why can't it come already?  Well, lets see...there could be different reasons...
1.  Maybe, just maybe there are some deliveries before me.  I have to wait my turn.
2.  Maybe the delivery got delayed by unforeseen issues..."Satan hath hindered me."
3.  Some things had to be worked out over "here" before this could be worked out over "here".
3.  There are a million things that could happen, but I don't want to just surmise...

Bottom line...I KNOW the "package" is coming.  God's Track Record tells me it is coming ...I have to be patient...maybe just maybe it's on the truck for delivery today!

So I will just keep waiting! In the meantime I will Keep,