Thank You

Today is a day dedicated to giving thanks. Every year I enjoy the fun preparation with my family, the big dinner and then the crazy (and sick) feeling of playing soccer with the family right after dinner. I want to thank God for that. But even more, I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for His mercy, His love, His grace. I will never fully understand it.
He has given me a beautiful and loving family to grow up in, and the most amazing friends anyone could ask for. Sometimes I get so caught up in praying for things that I don't have that I forget to thank Him for what seems to be taken for granted.
I have a long ways to go before I am ready to move on to greater things anyway...and I get discouraged about it a lot. I often feel like I am so behind. I pray that He'll bring me and That Girl, whoever He's destined me with, together...while I really would have nothing to offer if He did. And that's just one of many examples of the ways that He always seems to know what's best...even when I don't see it.
As for now, my trust is in Him. And God knows I will work my rear off to get to where I need to be!
But today... Thank you. To my dear friends, my loving family, and my Lord.