I know just from the title perhaps you think I'm confused. Am I crazy and do I think its Thanksgiving? No I am well aware that its a hot and balmy July in Georgia. This post is inspired by our sermon today. There's always a little video before the sermon starts at church. Today it was about thankfulness and when our normal preacher wasn't up there as the sermon started I thought to myself I am so thankful that when our regular pastor isn't there we have such a great blessing of having someone like Brett Legg to step in and always give such a great message. Today's in particular stuck with me.
This quote in particular, from Buddha:
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”
He challenged each of us to take note of 5 things on a daily basis for three weeks that we are thankful for and to not mention the same thing every day. We have 86,400 seconds in every day that we are given. It shouldn't be that hard to think of 5 little things to be thankful for right? Its so easy in life to take focus on all the negative things around us that sometimes we miss the opportunity to just take joy in the little blessings that surround us all the time. Its just so easy to take hold of the negative and let it rule you that such a simple concept can really set you back and make you think or at least it did me.
I won't bore you with my daily list of things that I am thankful for but thought I would share today.
1. Since I've already mentioned it I am so thankful that we are blessed with somoene like Brett Legg. He is such an amazing person.
2. A friend's brother came home from Afghanistan today along with 197 other heroes that have been serving our country for the past year. I am so thankful that their family is whole again.
http://www.wistv.com/story/15054681/sc-army-guard-engineers-returning-from-afghanistan
3. I love the fact that Noah loves to give me hugs and kisses. Silly yes, but today wasn't one of his most stellar days and those hugs and kisses remind you that underneath the almost 4 year old's angst of a bad day they still love you.
4. I got to sneak in a Sunday afternoon nap. It was short but still those little simple joys in life are nice.
5. For a great night at home. Sunday night TV in the summer is our favorite. True Blood and mint chocolate oreo ice cream. And as a bonus thing to be thankful for the storm going on during the show didn't knock out the satellite.
Yes these things may not all be huge and may not matter to anybody other than me. But those little joys in our lives are often what keep us going. Now to get to bed and hope we can stay there.
