Hmmm... i hate the idea of writing about another blogger, but I must! And it's not just another blogger... it THE blogger of all time! Ann Voskamp. yeah, you've heard of her. She's also sold a book and made millions. And she did so by being thankful.

I went to her blog today and found the most precious pictures of... kittens. kittens. they were so tiny and sweet. one was drinking milk out of a blue bowl and the other was curled around a little girl's neck. I wish that I had a kitten right now. It seemed so easy to be thankful about what Ann was thankful about! It was those kittens thought brought her from a bad mood to a good mood today, so I'm sure if I had those then I would feel the same way! Isn't this a sad way of life... "if only i had her small area of thankfulness, i would too!: pout." I'm missing the point. What is it in my life that I have to be thankful for? Right now? as I sit on the couch from sleeplessness and another long day? What brings life to these dry bones? I look around my tiny apartment and search for what it is that could make me thankful. I look up at my tree and I find an ornament that has a snow scene on it. evergreens with frosted snow weighing down the branches. I find myself in that. My camera is broken, or i would post... I remember being in the first grade. We were asked to create a little scene inside of an empty checkbook box with a hole cut out of the top and sealed with wax paper. When you held it up to the light, it would make the little scene come to life. That is the first time I saw God. That scene is forever etched in my head. Thank you, God. Cottonballs and magazine cut-outs of a farm house with a fireplace and a long snow-covered road. I would secretly go get that little box and hold it up to the light for hours. In there, the awe of another world, of heaven I suppose, came to earth. to my little 5-year old eyes. I knew God was safe. If He was cozy enough to fit inside a little box and be huge all at the same time, I knew I wanted to be apart of Him.

So tonight... I don't have pictures of all of these thankful things. But I can list them. I am thankful for:
Little snow scenes in a box...
Colorado trees.
Jay saying "arrgh" like a pirate.
Pineapple.
Peace.
Sapphire rings.
Steadfast love.