30 Days of Thankfulness— Thanksgiving
1: Thankful that I have a wonderful God!
2: Thankful and blessed to have parents who love me unconditionally and support me through my decisions.
3: Thankful for my big fat italian family who are amazing individuals
4: Thankful for my food choices in America
5: Thankful for my American freedom to worship who I want to
6: Thankful for a roof over my head, food on the table and safe water to drink
7: Thankful for an amazing team on the World Race who has challenged, accepted and continued to bless me in many ways
8: Thankful to have a college education
9: Thankful to live in a safe neighborhood
10: Thankful for this opportunity to be on the World Race
11: Thankful for friends back home
12: Thankful for those who I have met in other countries on this journey
13: Thankful for cabs in a foreign country when you are lost
14: Thankful for showers with clean water
15: Thankful for being spoiled in American culture
16: Thankful for basketball
17: Thankful for college UGA football
18: Thankful for the internet and google
19: Thankful for past traveling opportunities
20: Thankful for monkeys, cats and dogs
21: Thankful for pictures of life long memories
22: Thankful for oreos and peanut butter, sour gummies and nerds
23: Thankful for the American military to whom my mother was involved with
24: Thankful for being healthy and not having any major issues
25: Thankful for my convertible bug on cool fall and spring days
26: Thankful for the four kids that I have waiting for me back at home
27: Thankful for family traditions
28: Thankful for country line dancing
29: Thankful for Clay Aiken/ Josh Groban when I am trying to sleep
30: Thankful for any romantic and comedy movie
We never realize how simple things matter so much to us when we are living out of the country in a thrid world country without things that we are used to or had to leave behind. If you would have asked me this last year my list would have not been the same. It is till now that I am thankful for simple things. Sad that I just now realized all things. I am also thankful for this trip to teach me such great life lessons.
God really put me into reality today when it was raining and the government decided they would turn the electricty and the water off in the town. We did not know how long this would happen. Little did we know the power, internet and water was off for 12 hours…. what to do… what to do… 1st) I watched movies until my computer died…then I continued my daniel study for my daniel fasting…. wrote in my journal…. prayed…. slept… talked…. listened to my IPOD…. made shadow puppets on the ceiling with my head lamp… watched the rain… YEP.. that was the consistancy of the power outage.
Then God said " No longer will you take things for granted and you will be more thankful than you ever have for the things that you have and once had before life on the race" You better be right I am so thankful! Very thankful…I could go on and on about the other things I am thankful for but I think you get it..
Be thankful for everything.. you never know what tomorrow may bring.. The LORD giveth and the LORD taketh away.
Blessings,
Sarah
