Thankful

Thanksgiving is around the corner. It will be a very different Thanksgiving for me this year and since I won't be able to blog on the day, I thought I would do a little thankfulness post ahead of time.

Just a few of the things I am thankful for......in no particular order

• My family.They love the Lord and they love me
• Tuesday nights with my fellowship group. Can't imagine my life in NYC without these girls.  
• My Church and my pastor.  what a Priviledge it is to sit under the teaching of Tim Keller
• My Apt.  It's big, it's nice, there is laundry in the building and an elevator. 
• My Staff Team. They make my job fun and doable
• My boss.  She knows my strengths and my weaknesses and seeks to foster both of these to develop me as an employee and as a child of God
• My community.  Not sure how you do life in NYC without a solid community
• My roommates.  
• Not having a car.  I really love that I don't own a car.  No oil changes, no gas, no flat tires.  It makes life so much easier
• My health.  I don't think about this often, but I want to be more thankful for this
• Airplanes.  It makes traveling doable 
• Central Park.  My refuge in this city and I love it
• Mr Constant.  He's my constant in this city
• Friends (the tv show) I am totally still obsessed with this show.  It does not matter how bad my day is this show will make me laugh
• Life in NYC.  It's crazy and hard, but it is also exciting and fun.
• Fountain Drinks.  My love for fountian drinks is still going strong.  
• The supers in my building.  They are just so helpful and so great
• The Hudson River.  It's beutiful especially at sunset.  I love that I live 2 blocks from water. 
• The Families at Redeemer.  They are just great and so encouraging to me. 
• A mentor.  I needed this and God gave me one
• My college friends.  We don't see each other often, but they are there for me and I love them!  
• Pandora.  It just makes the work day so much better.  ecspecially when you work in a loud office! 
• Squagels from Cosi.  My favorite morning breakfast treat
• Broadway.  I love Broadway and I live in the city of it!  .   
• My Parent's mountain house.  It's a beautiful and quiet place to escape to when I am able to go home
• Chineese Body Works
• Cheap Manicures and Pedicures on every block
• Trader Joes.  I love this grocery store and now that there is one in the UWS it's been so nice!  
• My Iphone.  I love this phone! 
• My job.  There are many without one and I have one I love! 
• Mary Blake! She is such a blessing.  

I want to have a heart of thanksigiving.  I deserve nothing yet the Lord has giving me so incredibly much.  I know there are things I left off, but these are some things at the front of my mind.  Most importantly I am thankful for Jesus Christ.  That he chose me, that he loves me, that his mercy and grace pour down in my life. He bought me at a price and I am his.  My hope does not have be in this world, because I have a greater hope, a great purpose. And day I will live eternity with Him in Heaven.  For that I am most thankful!  

"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness"

 Colossians 2:6-7