Thankful and Not so Thankful

A friend of mine, TJ Reid, blogged today about what he is NOT thankful for. I thought it was a neat perspective.

Here are a few things that I am NOT so thankful for today:

• Senseless violence in our cities.
• People that are going hungry while others overfill.
• People who have kids, abuse and neglect them and today they are lost and unwanted.
• The many people still in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• That people I love continually choose flesh over spirit.
• Brokenness, sin and the evil attacks of the enemy on people's lives.

And here are some things that I AM thankful for this Thanksgiving:

• Jesus, my Savior, my King, my Friend. I would be totally and utterly lost without Him as the leader of my life!
• Tricia Kaye! He that finds a wife (like this) finds a really, really, really, really good thing.
• Davis Kaye! This young man is filling our heart and home with joy like we could have never imagined.
• All our family. Blessed beyond measure.
• Capital Christian Fellowship!! What a fantastic community to live with and serve the Lord with. Awesome church!!
• The increase in spiritual intimacy with the Father in 2009. Greater closeness to the heart of God than I have ever felt before in 3 decades of life!

The Lord is an amazing God! Won't you take time to thank him today?