My family has lived in North Carolina for four and a half years now, and we’ve had four Thanksgivings here. Two have been at our wonderful neighbor’s house. They’re the Jenkins family, and basically they’re my family. Last year was an awesome Thanksgiving, and this year lived up to, if not surpassed the year before. A truly wonderful amazing holiday.
It got to spend the holiday with my Mom, Dad, Mark, Kathy, Mark’s brother Todd, Todd’s girlfriend Katie, and Todd’s friend Corey. Todd used to live down here, but he’d been living up in the mountains for a while, so it was awesome to see him again. I got to meet Katie and Corey, and they are both just amazing people.
We ate a ton of food. Played a lot of games. Punched each other a lot. Laughed a lot. I got educated in some new music thanks to Corey. (Shout Out dude! I love my Cd’s) We even watched a movie on VHS. I didn’t even know people still had those. It was fun times.
This year’s Thanksgiving was one of the best ones ever, and not just for me. And I love that. I love that I got to be a part of this awesome family and just be around awesome people and just soak up all the awesomeness. (three awesomes in one sentence…bet you’re impressed)
And being around such amazing people with amazing life stories and transformations got me to thinking about what I’m really thankful for in my own life. And of course it’s a huge list…so here’s my top five:
1: The fact that I’ve got The Lord, my Savior, Jesus Christ in my heart guiding me through some of the most pivotal times and decisions of my life.
2: My amazing family/extended family/friends. I’ve got the most amazing group of people who are in my corner forever and always. People I know I can count on and will keep me accountable for my own actions. I’d do anything for these people, and they know it.
3: The fact that I live in a wealthy nation. I know that sounds horrible, but seriously, I’m thankful that I have a nice house with heat and running water. That’s a luxury in a lot of places, and I’m very thankful I don’t live in any of them
4: My amazing church. I know it kind of goes hand in hand with number 1, but you can have Christ guiding you spiritually in a stagnant church. And I’m extremely thankful that Elevation is anything but stagnant. I love that it’s exciting and growing and pushing and bursting and loving. I don’t even know where my life would be with out it.
5: Last but not least and kind of cheesy…but my job. A lot of people hate their jobs every single day. And I won’t lie, some days I don’t feel like going, but for the most part…i love it. I have fun, i meet cool people, my co-workers are awesome, and I make enough money to pay for school and and have fun. I’ve had crappy jobs, but stool pigeons isn’t one of them, and to any of my co workers that reads this…i’m thankful for you =]
So yay for thanks giving. I’d list forever…and if you read my blog you know this. But I will stop at five, only because it’s almost midnight and I should really sleep before work tomorrow. And I’m super sleepy too…all that turkey is finally catching up with me. Darn tryptophan. (And if you weren’t impressed by my three awesomes before, be super impressed I spelled that right on the first try!!!)
…what are you thankful for?
