Y’all!
I cannot believe that it has been one year since I have posted some of these bloggie blogs! Yet, here we are! It has been over a year since I began this whole abandoned adventure and that is hard to believe. November 2016 will be here before you know it.
But let’s try to stay present…
Which brings us to my point of the blog!
Last year, around Thanksgiving, I posted a challenging blog about severing some comfort from your life as I believed it would be healthy for us all. So, what is Baby E’s perspective on that now since she has been removed from a substantial amount of comfort for a considerable amount of time?
Good question, party people. Comfort to me now? What is it?
IT’S A COUCH! Ha! No kidding! A couch, a shower head, an AC unit, more than 13 options when you go to pick out your undies, wifi in general let alone reliable, and a new team. A new team because that means a new wardrobe.
These are things of comfort. Cuddling up to a couch with a blanket and a breeze. mmm. Can’t wait.
Last weekend, we went into the city and stayed in a hotel thanks to Khari Chanel’s momma. Y’all. There were showers. There were beds. Big, fluffy beds with clean, white sheets! Ahhh!!! I cried in the shower. I cried, y’all. Not depressing cry. Just, “Lord, I am so grateful for this hot shower,” cry. What’s a girl gotta do to get some water pressure, you know?!
Oh, she has to rejoin the world that she grew up in. The basics of my life that wait for me back home is the luxury of the life I am walking in this year. Thank you, Lord. For the perspective.
With this perspective, I don’t have a challenging message this year. With some different understanding, I have a different take. Maybe it’s the holidays approaching. Maybe it’s the theme of thankfulness this time of year. Either way, my message is much more grace-filled…
Instead of, “Look at yourself in all your bougie luxuries with your running water and lack of bugs…I can’t believe you. Be more poor!” … my message this Thanksgiving is:
Be joyful God has blessed your life in such a way. Go you for being surrounded by gifts that can make thanking God so much easier.
I believe that I have found the secret to a good life this past year. Gratitude. There is a lot of power in looking around in a moment and smiling at the wonderful happenings. When you feel a funk coming on, listing out some things that you are grateful for will most assuredly change your mood.
So, this Thanksgiving, give thanks. For me and all the other racer’s out here just looking for a dark wood coffee shop with a big comfy chair. As you snuggle in that big ole perfect bed, think of me (easyyyy) and laugh a little as you feel completely grateful for your current circumstance and how the Lord has provided.
Must be nice…
Yea. It is nice. Go you, blessed dwellers! Cherish it with a glad heart and receive the blessings without guilt. Believe that something out there says that you are worth it and let that joy be contagious and spread. Your belief welling up into the infectious, active love that it produces is far more effective than forced volunteer labor. That’s what I believe these days, anyway.
The war on comfort is now one of joyful gratitude versus guilty gratitude. Let the natural blessings happen and let them work in you as you go out and serve this holiday season.
Happy Thanksgiving season, y’all. Love you dearly and know that I am thinking of so many of you. Praying about a good chunk of you, so hard, on the daily. And will be filling up my grateful list this year, with a lot of names of the people who have been relentlessly faithful to me during this time. Thank you for the way y’all love and pursue me and have given me grace upon grace. Each in your own way. I love you, so much, and each day out here proves it over and over.
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I have one final deadline. January 1st, 2016. dun dun dun. The remaining amount to reach this deadline is $1,361.00. The perks of this situation? If you donate, you can get some more tax deductible something or nothers for the year 2015! And I think I’ve heard somewhere that it is almost a ‘dollar for dollar return’. I think that is supposed to mean something to some, but I honestly still have little understanding. I know! I’m an adult…
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