I am thankful

Tomor­row is very impor­tant day for all of us who live in the United States, if not for all of us in the world.  Tomor­row we cel­e­brate Thanks­giv­ing, a time to fel­low­ship with fam­ily and friends and cel­e­brate life and life together.  It’s also the time we gives thanks to God for all the bless­ings he has bestowed on us through the year. 

I’ve noticed a trend that has been going on in the blo­gos­phere, where every­one lists what they are thank­ful for.  In that spirit, I decided that I would list those things I am most thank­ful for — 31 things for 31 years of life on this earth.

So here I go - I’m thank­ful for…(after the fold):

1. First and fore­most, I am thank­ful for my rela­tion­ship with Jesus Christ, the Anointed Son of God.  Lately I haven’t been very active in our church, much to my own shame.  Unfor­tu­nately I’ve let worldly things get in the way of my rela­tion­ship with Him, but now is my time to get back.  He hasn’t left me — I pulled away from him.   No more.
2. My wife:  I know I can be dif­fi­cult to live with some­times, but she’s been great.    I love her very much, and I am very blessed to have her in my life.
3. My fam­ily — all my broth­ers, sis­ters, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and cousins.  Life would be bor­ing with­out you guys!
4. My Mom.  She’s a trooper.  I know this year has been very rough on her with us los­ing my Dad back in March.  I love you, Mom!
5. My Dad.  You taught me so much and through your and Mom’s sac­ri­fices I was able to ful­fill my dreams.  I miss you very much.  I learned a lot from you, and I’m still learn­ing.  I just wish we could have had more time together. I’ll never for­get our trip to Word­Camp Dal­las 2008 — I had so much fun with you.
6. My wife’s fam­ily — I’m very blessed to have the in-laws I do.
7. My job — I’m glad I have a great-paying job with won­der­ful ben­e­fits.  I’m very blessed con­sid­er­ing the way the econ­omy is right now.
8. My wife’s job.  It always helps to have another income
9. My cowork­ers — There’s not a sin­gle one of them I don’t get along with.  I con­sider them all good friends.  It makes for a great work­ing environment.
10. My home.  It’s great to have a place to come home to and lay your head at night.  I know there are a lot of peo­ple out there who don’t have one due to the bad economy.
11. My vehi­cle.  Gotta have a way to get to that job, and it has hardly given me any sig­nif­i­cant trouble.
12. The clothes on my back.
13. The water that comes through the faucets — only God knows how many peo­ple out there that live with­out clean, run­ning water.
14. The elec­tric­ity I can turn on through the flip of a switch.
15. The food we can buy through a sim­ple trip to the supermarket.
16. The sun that shines and the tem­per­ate cli­mate I live in…I don’t think I could han­dle the extremes of cold or hot.
17. My health.  God has blessed me with good health, and I don’t have any sig­nif­i­cant health prob­lems.
18. My edu­ca­tion.  I’m very blessed to have attended great schools, and have a great degree.  I’m glad I had the sup­port from my won­der­ful par­ents to help get me through.
19. My friends — whether new or old you have all blessed me in some way.  Now let’s get back together and hang out and have fun!
20. My blog­ging / online friends.  It’s always good to “meet” new peo­ple from dif­fer­ent regions and dif­fer­ent walks of life.  It helps give you perspective.
21. Cof­fee!!  If it wasn’t for you, dear friend, I wouldn’t be able to func­tion in the morn­ings.  Ha!!
22. Free­dom.  Of Reli­gion, of Speech…of everything!
23. The United States of Amer­ica — my home sweet home!  With all of our prob­lems and dis­agree­ments, we still live in the best coun­try of the world.
24. Elec­tronic gad­gets — com­put­ers, phones, game consoles…I love to tin­ker on these things.
25. The inter­net — It’s such a won­der­ful tool, and let’s face it:   This blog wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the internetz!!
26. For Word­Press — Thanks to Matt Mul­len­weg and the great Word­Press team for such a user-friendly plat­form!  Again, this blog wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for WP!
27. For Facebook…It’s a great tool to help keep in touch with friends.
28. The oppor­tu­nity to travel to other parts of the world (see num­ber 6!)  and be able to expe­ri­ence other cul­tures and other lan­guages.  One of these days I will go back to Roma and London!
29. For music and the tal­ent to sing — it’s such a great release when your down in the dumps or extremely happy or frus­trated to just drive and belt out your favorite songs!
30. For good enter­tain­ment and any­thing that makes me laugh.
31. And last but cer­tainly not least:  The Mil­i­tary — Our sol­diers and sailors, our coast guard, our marines and SEALs.  If it weren’t for you guys and gals, we wouldn’t have any of the above.  My thoughts and prayers are always with you, and I fully sup­port you no mat­ter what.

Happy Thanks­giv­ing, every­one!

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