Thanksgiving

I suppose I should finish my days of thanks :) Today I am thankful for Thanksgiving dinner with my family (so much good food!) and for Thanksgiving desserts with Paul's family (also a lot of good food!). I am thankful that we can have a good time with both of our families, and really enjoy being with them. Also Paul's brother and his wife were in town from California, so that was a special thanks! They are an awesome couple. Finally for today I am thankful that we were able to go see the new Muppet movie with some of Paul's family for his brother's birthday - it was a ridiculous movie (what else would you expect from Muppets?), but funny and a bit nostalgic, although I'm too young to have much of the nostalgia part.

 For this year, I am incredibly thankful that Paul asked me to marry him way back in January, and that we were married in May. Being his wife is one of the most wonderful things ever - I am loving what I have gotten to experience and learn so far, and I am looking forward to all the years that are hopefully before us! I am also deeply thankful for everything God has been doing in my heart, will, and mind; I don't know if this is objectively observable from the outside, but it seems to me that this year I have really gotten to know God more deeply and genuinely, and that He has been working on me quite a bit. I've been learning how to process and cope with a lot of different situations and emotions that have been difficult for me in the past, and I've also been learning a lot about how to serve others and really care about them. My desires both to know God and to love others have increased over the year, anyway. Hopefully those desires translate into real action and change, and don't just simmer inside my heart until they gradually turn lukewarm.

Anyway, good night and Happy Thanksgiving to you all!