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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Eve and my personal belief is that the eve of a holiday filled with its anticipation and excitement holds just as much wonderfulness as the actual holiday.

Thanksgiving is wonderful time because you can write endless blog posts on thankfulness and its vogue :)

Every day is beautiful. Every day there is something to be thankful for. I find that easier to say  some days then others. Sometimes I breath the words with a heart over flowing with happiness and gratitude. Sometimes the words come out through clenched teeth and a heart that wants to be selfish.

Oh ungrateful person that I am!

In reality its almost embarrassing for me to count my blessings.

There is health, yes there has been the seemingly perpetual cold and a unpleasant case of the stomach flu, but all my limbs are still intact and my life is not ruled by doctor visits.

Wealth...true there isn't a lot be said about my life style, but all of my needs are met. Food, clothes, shelter, hygiene products and even the occasional Starbucks latte. I have never gone hungry because lack of money.

Church, I go to church and its a wonderful church. Not a perfect church...for there is not a perfect church anywhere, but I can fellowship and pour over the Word of God with fellow believers and my soul is fed.

Friends, No they are not always available to me when I feel they should be (that is just me being selfish though), but I have friends who will laugh with me and talk with me and tell me its going to be okay.

This is the embarrassment of riches that I have and so many do not, yet all of those could be wiped away from me and I would still be a very rich girl.

I would still have Christ.

    In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
   
(Ephesians 1:11-14 )

If all I had left was Chris I would have everything I would ever need. 

"Hallelujah! All I have is Christ
Hallelujah! Jesus is my life" ---Sovereign Grace Music