November 27th - Top-10 Reasons for Being Thankful

The story...

I'm so thankful to be thankful because I'm thankful.

My top-ten thankful reasons:

1. God's Word confirms my faith in Christ.
2. Each breath I breath - I'm alive.
3. My life partner promised to stick with and love me no matter what.
4. Family members whom engage in life with me.
5. Ability to receive, understand, store, recall and apply knowledge.
6. Close friends with whom I walk through life towards a common aim.
7. A warm, comfortable, safe home within the security of the USA.
8. Mobility to go where I want to go and care for myself.
9. Wise, "Yes," choices that help me grow and be.
10. Medical system that enables me to be active and relatively pain free.

The only church in town will teach, preach, and proclaim good reasons for being thankful.  In the community, some will find the comforts of this life out of reach.  Yet, their souls often sing with joy - faith worked our it reality.  Community living like this should've been in my top ten list - I wonder where I might've inserted it and what it would've replaced?

Just for today...

"If I so choose, I can regard everything that happens in my life as a gift from which I can learn and grow."  Courage to Change (p. 332)

"Chose a mate; Wanted 'em so - Different soul; Won't always go."
"Naively entered; The big deal - In forever; Courthouse seal."
"Wanted a pet; Got like me - Bouncing along; Lovin we."    Am I a Poet?