Thinkful About Being Thankful

I received the telephone calls from family and friends; I made dinner and remained on the couch "thinkfully" thinking about being thankful. It would seem that you shouldn't compare your life to others when counting your blessing, but as I look back over my life, I am grateful. Many people that started out with me are not here today. I have lived beyond the foolishness of my youth, the impetuousness of my middle age, and now I am in maturity grateful to be alive; honored to be able to serve others.

My children are all adults with children of their own; I have poured what I have and know into their lives and make myself available to them as they reach out to me. I am purposely serving humanity and honored, very honored to have the presence of mind and the blessings of God, to want to do exactly what I am doing - I am thankful!

We are embarking on another level of service in the next few weeks in a different part of the country, and we are honored to work in Miami serving. As I began, so I end, today I am "thinkfully" being thankful for the life God has given me.