I got to show off the new kiddos via pictures and videos and the videos were especially touching...brought most of us to tears. Right now they are in an orphanage in Ethiopia...amazing to think that in just a couple months Bennet, Kaleb and Kali will be here at our house, sitting at our BIG new kitchen table, eating American food, sleeping on comfy mattresses and being hugged, kissed, prayed with and tucked in at night by their daddy and momma and new brother and sister. I am getting SO EXCITED.
I'm so thankful that my family is not only supportive, but just as excited as we are -- well, maybe not quite that much, but VERY excited. What a huge blessing to have the love and support of family. I realize not everyone has that. Thank you, God!!
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. There is SO much to be thankful for. I read this paragraph in my Greg Laurie devotional this week and think it is worth passing along.
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who won’t survive the week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 20 million people around the world. If you attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than almost three billion people in the world. If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head, and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75 percent of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8 percent of the worlds wealthy.
There is a lot to give thanks for. And the primary reason we were put on this earth as human beings is to glorify God and to give Him thanks.
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