Giving Thanks
/ Autumn McKenzie Jackson
There is an occasion for gratitude every day. I have some big huge goals I am working to accomplish before years end. The number of challenges I have been inundated with over that past few months is almost comical. I am grateful for the right perspective to get through them. I choose not to dwell on them, but I started writing some of them down so I can give thanks for making it through them. Then I lost my journal. The challenges are present to make the victories even sweeter.
I am grateful to see a new day.
I am grateful for the perspective that it is going to be a good day no matter what.
I am grateful for you.
I am grateful for this moment with you. You could be many places right now and you chose here.
I could go on.
May today and everyday we look for ways to be grateful.
There are levels to everything. I can live a religious life that is sterile and devoid of divine power and muscle through life exhausted and overwhelmed or I can recognize the fullness of what Christ Jesus died to give me.
It has taken me years to express the sentiment found in this post. God has been working on my heart. There was a lot of shame and blame mixed in with my raw emotions that I needed to process.
The possibilities are endless. She is learning to hear from God. She knows that He has a plan and a purpose for her life. She has persevered through many things and her story of overcoming with help others.
Tory Palecek is my best friend from college. I met Tory the first day of volleyball preseason freshman year at Colgate University. We were both incoming freshmen. She immediately made an impression on me.
I am learning to thrive in increasingly complex situations.