Learning to Live Fully

For the past month, a few girls and I have been meeting once a week to go through a book called One Thousand Gifts. As we've been going through it, I'm reminded of the importance of thankfulness. I think being thankful is something that is so easily overlooked or taken for granted, but seriously everything we have, everything we see, feel, love and are, are all gifts from God. In the book the author brings out a pattern in scripture. It's always there, but we often just look past it. Before everything Jesus did, before every miracle that took place, thanks was always given first. Learning to live fully I think has to do with being in your present situation no matter what it is and being able to be thankful.

There was a crazy storm that happened yesterday in Waterloo. The rain was literally coming down sideways. I'd never seen something like it before. A bunch of trees were struck down including the one on our front lawn. I'm thankful that tree was there otherwise our house would've been struck. A perfect hole was made in one of the branches and part of the tree fell but not onto our house. It's crazy to think how perfect it was. A cm to the left or right and our house would've been hit. Even with the power outage yesterday, it didn't hit Mikey's until 8pm allowing us to still do business for the day.

I'm reminded of the power of God too. Men want to be able to predict and control everything. We want to know what will happen next and plan out our lives but everything is from God. We are where we are and have what we have because God has chosen to give it to us. The storm happened and died in a blink and it's another beautiful day again in Waterloo. Let's try to learn living our lives fully, being thankful in even the smallest of things :)