Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was pretty low key at our house this year. It was the four of us...we invited some people from work, but they were unable to make it. We decided to go see a movie in the morning, August Rush, which was really good. Not a comedy, very serious, but the music was amazing! Definitely want the sound track when it comes out.

We came home and began making dinner. We deep fried our turkey which was absolutely out of this world! We did the typical sides...mash potatoes, green bean casserole (our favorite), cornbread stuffing and rolls. As we were getting ready to dish up, the sun was setting and it caught my attention. The sky was lit up with pinks, blues, purples. I ran and grabbed my camera and headed outside.

We have a lot to be thankful for this year...
God's plan for us is starting to take place (not like it hasn't before, but we are really seeing it unfold, which is awesome!)
Our health
Our family both near and far -
my sister and her family came home safely from Europe after 4 months away
Mr. A's sister and husband are having a baby in June
We re-connected with Mr. A's dad who will hopefully be moving out here in the spring
My mom has remained cancer free after her bone marrow transplant ( 2 years ago this Thanksgiving)
New friends
Nature - God is always showing me how faithful He is with nature. The sunrise, the sunset, the autumn colors, the breeze, the flowers.

One of my favorite passages of scripture is found in Matthew 6:25-34. I tend to be a worry-wart. I can worry about things when there is nothing to worry about. God has really helped me overcome a lot of this, but it is still something I deal with when problems come and I don't know how to handle it. This passage has helped me tremendously to know that if God cares about the birds, flowers, how much more does He care about me, who was created in His image.

Matthew 6:25-34
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."