Thankful

So it looks like its been a while yet again. I guess timeliness isn't one of my qualities or ambitions of late. A lot has happened since the summer, almost too much to recount. So instead of trying to go back and highlight the past 5 months, I'm just going to skip right to present day. And here we find Thanksgiving. Can't believe the holidays are here and 2008 is about to be over. The year has simply flown by. I actually thought that we would never get here, that it was so far away in the future, but here we are. And what comes after this year is a life-changing, exciting, scary, uncertain, dream-come-true kind of thing that cannot be dwelled on now for risk of missing the present, yet cannot be ignored either for risk of being unprepared. I therefore must choose now to be in the present and hold off on what is coming until that too, becomes more present.
As we are in the season of being thankful, here goes. I am thankful for my husband, obviously. He has been the best surprise of my life. I am so thankful for the man he is, the man who follows God where He leads, no matter how hard it gets. And I am so thankful for the man he is becoming, the man God has big dreams and plans for yet. I am also thankful for my family. They don't always understand the decisions I make or the paths I choose, but they always support me. And now they are doing that for David. I am thankful for fall, and this one in particular. I love when the leaves change colors, and this year has been the most brilliant ever. Despite the drought and how ugly things looked in the summer, fall came in with an incredible display of beauty. Only God can do that. Only God can make something out of nothing, only He can make beauty from drought. And I am so thankful for what He has done in my own life. He truly has dreams bigger than I could ever dream, and I am thankful that He gives me the chance to live them. I am thankful for the places He has brought me out of, and how He has used those places to make me into who I am right now. I am thankful for the life He breaths into me everyday and that I don't have to do it on my own. And I am thankful for the people He has surrounded me with, the great cloud of witnesses, who come along side of me when I can't walk it alone. I am truly blessed and I shouldn't be, and I am thankful. Only God can do something like that.
Here's some pictures of what He's been doing up here, although its not the same as actually being part of it. Hope your Thanksgiving is great and that you are thankful too.







PS- Jenny, Laura Susan, if yall read this, or if you know them and can pass this on, I miss reading your blogs! Please let me back in! Sorry I'm late with my request!