So Much to Be Thankful For...

Last year about this time, Chris and I were basking in our first year of marriage only thinking and dreaming of the adventures to come.  Never in a million years would I have thought I would be pregnant and 13 weeks away from the due date.  A lot changes in one year.  I work at a new school, have opened my own private practice, have completed my license requirements, am about to become a mother, and have been blessed to share all of these successes with my friends and family.  I looked back in the blog about the different times of waiting and patience over the last couple years and I realize that my blog is a log of waiting seasons and a log   of pivotal moments where I got to watch the sunrise.  The journey I have seen goes up and down with joys and sorrows and is far less planned out than I had expected my life to be.

I looked over pictures, and I reflected on how God brings people in and out of your life throughout the journey to walk along side of you.  People sometimes step out, but then some how step back in randomly.  Others are with you all along the way, and some only for a short moment or two.  All seem to have impact, meaning, and purpose in the bigger journey along the bend.  He also brings in people that we would have never picked for ourselves.  God can allow this biggest set backs to come into our lives only to redeem those dark moments days, weeks or years later for his glory.  All I know is that despite some unknown times ahead, I am so very thankful for where I am right in this current moment.

I've been watching my friends do a daily list of thanks for this month, and I think if I got started I would need pages.  I have such a scope of thankfulness this year.  I am well on to a life I dreamed of, but in completely different ways than I dreamed of it.

Today before Thanksgiving, I want to just sit with this attitude of gratitude for family, life, love, friendship, and blessing beyond compare.  I feel in these moments a glimpse of what's to come.  God is so good to me.