Gratitude Friday...

Coming to you live from the Dallas Love airport cell phone lot! Mrs. JT lands in a few minutes so I'm waiting while Pumpkin sleeps. I might bust wide open with excitement! I've been so homesick lately. Having her here will be such a joy! She makes me happy.

There have been a great many missed Fridays lately. Some of that is flat out a lack of time. When you work from home...with a toddler...every spare minute is devoted to working. I do my best to leave my weekends work-free but they fill up quickly with life-altering things like laundry and scrubbing floors.

But keeping it real here, I have to say my heart has just not been in it. Been doing a whole lot of just trying to catch my breath and not fall under the changes. I don't handle change very well. At least in my personal life. Work is a whole other thing. Which I find so very odd. Anyway, I know its time to refocus and get back to be rooted in thankfulness.

Pumpkin and I shared our first Honeycrisp Apple last week. She wasn't too sure about it at first but then she seemed to like it. Not as much as her momma though! Everytime I eat one, I remember where this life of gratitude began. With a honeycrisp apple, peach ginger water and a little Beatles. Such simple things. Since then, I have watched our Savior work small and huge miracles all around me. Its overwhelming to read back through my Gratitude Fridays and see just how small my little world is. And yet through Him all things are possible.

So this week, I am recommitting myself and my heart to giving Christ the praise and glory He deserves for every single thing, person and moment in my life. Hold me accountable, ya'll. Please.

With that confession, let's go!

1. Tabitha. Girl. Gift from God. I love you!

2. My job - my boss is a self-described "student of Christ" and I had a lovely time talking with her this week about the work of her hands that God has established. Blessed to know her.

3. Fmaily visits - Mrs JT, then Mom and then Chris' parents! I can't wait to hug your necks and watch the joy of you loving on my daughter.

4. Sweet SS Class - such great women of God and even though I don't tell them enough, they are such an encouragement to me.

5. Reminder - AK met one of her namesakes this morning. It was nice to see him even if it was brief. I look at this picture and want to shout at the top of my lungs how much more my God can do than I could have ever imagined or dreamed. Immeasurably more. Right now I have a sweet friend at work in her TWW after her 2nd IUI. And she paid a co-pay for it. Could I have ever even dared to imagine infertilty insurance for the company? For now 13,000 ppl all over the US. And all we had to do was wait. Amazing.

Lord, the blessings in our life are too great to ever begin to name. For even in our lowest points, You are at work. Providing and meeting our needs as You promised You would. Thank you for the people and things in my life who challenge me and lift me up. Again, Lord, I am humbled at how You love me.