Thankful Thursday, Take 49

Thanking God this week for:

• Reconnecting with my "little sister" Angelica. It's taken all summer for us to get things rolling (transitioning from a school-based tutoring program with Big Brothers Big Sisters to a community-based program though BBBS where we spend time together every other week for an few hours). It's SOOOOOOOOOOOO great to see her and spend time with her.
• Beautiful fall weather. I LOVE the cool evenings/mornings and the warm days!!!!
• Great, deepening friendships
• Restored, deepening relationships with others
• Seeing the people I'm pouring into reproducing themselves and pouring into others
• Being able to sing and worship Jesus with myvoice
• Great music that speaks to my heart and meets me where I am
• Great music that allows me to verbalize my heart to Jesus in ways I couldn't on my own.
• Stillness
• Discernment into the hearts of others and what makes them tick - seeing so much further than what their words and actions would indicate on the surface. I LOVE getting to know people and see them for who they really are....
• Being a good communicator - and even getting the opportunity to teach about communication next week at Discovering Community. Oh, the irony of communicating about communication.....let's see how this one goes! ;)
• A reminder of God's sovereignty, care and grace in my life - in the wake of news that my college is closing down the undergraduate programs at the campus I attended. (To know that He really did direct me to Taylor (and more specifically, to Taylor Fort Wayne) through something so much more than “coincidence” for exactly the time I attended. To know that the friendships I built, the things I learned, the training I received, the memories I made, the enormous spiritual growth I experienced – were all a part of His specific plan to get me to be where and who I am now….it’s really just overwhelming....)
• God's plan for and promises to me....