It's been 150 days since November 1st and I have found something in my life every day to be thankful for. WOW! Have you ever sat down at the end of each day and thought about what you had to be thankful for that day, for an extended period of time? I won't lie when I say that in the beginning I honestly thought, "that will be easy". There are definitely days when it is so easy. There have even been days when I have had so many things that I was covered for a couple of extra days. But there have also been days when I have sat here for a long time thinking about the day and really having to dig to find something that I was thankful for in it.
I recently had someone say that the things that I was thankful for were self-centered and that I should look at the world and find more important things to be thankful for. I suppose that we are all entitled to our own opinion and they can think that I'm being self-centered if they want to. The thing is, I suppose that's the point of my daily thankful post. I look at MY life so of course it's "self-centered". Yes, I'm thankful for the people who work in my community, for the grocery store checkers, the gas station attendents, the civil service people but the point of my daily thankfulness is for what I'm thankful for in my daily life.
I'm thankful that I have an amazing family, that my sweet girl is growing into her love for reading, that I have quiet time to myself in the evenings, that I have that priviledge of staying home and taking care of my family, that my husband works so hard to provide all he can for his girls, and so much more. Yes these are all self-centered thankful thoughts and yes I will continue to focus on my life in just this way. God has given me so much and why not take the time to focus on what He has done and thank Him for that.
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