So Thankful

I am just so thankful at this moment that I had to share it or I feel like I might burst open.

I am thankful for my husband (who is the most wonderful man on the planet) because he loves me and he shows me he loves me every day in every way - even when he doesn't know it.

I am thankful for my brother Jon who reminds me so much of a younger me - who loves me and appreciates me as more than just his sister who is 12 years older- but who shares with me as a friend.

I am thankful for Maggie because she brought me to a church I feel like I can belong to and because she supports me and helps lift me up - and because she's just such a beautiful person inside and out and I am lucky to know her.

I am thankful for Maggie's husband Kim for being so understanding at the beginning stages of Maggie's and my friendship - For not kicking me out of his house since I'm over there all the time - taking away from time with his wife.

I am thankful for Maggie's children because they give hugs and loan me books and call me Miss Murray... because they help heal my heart of its sadness at not having babies of my own.

I am thankful for RBC because being there feels like coming to God's home, sitting at His table, and being welcomed as if it were my own home.

I am thankful for Shepherd Group for giving me a place to meet new people in the same time of their lives going through the same struggles as my husband and I. I am thankful that they made us feel so welcome and that they really seem to get me and appreciate me for what I bring with me.

I am thankful for Bible Study and all the women in it not only for giving me an opportunity to learn from other women but for being so warm and accepting while doing it.

But most of all I am thankful to God because:

God brought me my husband when I wasn't looking.
God filled me with the need to build a relationship with my brother before it was too late.
God moved Maggie to ask if I wanted to be friends outside of book club.
God filled Kim with the worlds largest amount of patience.
God created children's ability to show love with free hugs.
God's Spirit allowed Maggie to ask me to accompany her to church and God's grace allowed me to be moved by that experience.

God filled me with a desire to serve Him and grow in my knowledge of Him and provided ways to use me so that His light could shine through me. And even though I am tarnished glass - I can still glow!