Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! I love thanksgiving for obvious reasons; get to see family and old friends, awesome food, watch football (even though they're usually bad games), the nap after eating is probably the best nap of the year, and it's a great time to reflect on how much God blesses me. Here's my list of things I'm thankful for:

1. God and his amazing love, grace, and mercy for me. God gives me everything I have so naturally I am the most thankful to him.
2. My family - It sucks that this year we had thanksgiving without my dad b/c he's in China but it made me appreciate him even more. He's halfway across the world trying to provide for our family and I know he does it all out of love. I did get to see Ernie for the first time in a few months and Carol and her husband came down with Sammie the cutest puppy ever so I'm very thankful for all of them.
3. Diana - Di's been such a blessing on my life. Everyone knows how cheery, upbeat and outgoing she is which I love about her, but the thing I love even more is how she pushes me to be stronger with God. Thanks DI!!!!
4. Friends - I have awesome friends and I'm thankful for them all. I'm also blessed that God has given me people in my life that I can talk to about my spiritual life. I've lacked this growing up throughout highschool and college mostly b/c of my own pride, but finally I'm seeing how much of a positive impact it has.
5. My job - I don't think anyone even knows what I do but it's ok. I have a good steady job in a growing industry and I'm thankful that I can say that in these harsh times. I have co-workers that are my age so I actually have people I can talk to and relate with at work and it definitely helps.
6. My health - :knock on wood: I rarely ever get sick. I definitely take this for granted b/c it's so normal to me. I need to thank God for this everyday though b/c I'm so healthy yet there are people out there that are not so healthy. We have a new pediatric study at work where kids and infants are being blasted with radioactive therapy for a cancer called neuroblastoma. They have to then be in radiation isolation for a few days with extremely minimal contact with family and even caretakers b/c of the high levels of radiation. It sucks hearing about things like this esp with kids. I need to be thankful for my health...
7. blogger.com, christianity.com - these two websites help me track my progress of trying to read the bible in a year. I'm so glad I found them or it'd probably be a lot harder to finish.

I'm thankful for a lot of other things but those are the main ones. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving like I did!