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I think more than ever we ALL need to be thankful. At least for my immediate family, this year deserves to be remembered and viewed through the lenses of eternity. Our world can quickly become consuming when we look only through the lenses of the news media outlets or social websites. We get caught up and emotionally charged and ultimately lose sight of eternity, and it is that vision of eternity that allows us to see thankfulness, live thankfulness in ALL of our life stories.

We are 3 weeks out from Cade’s bilateral Syme’s amputation surgery at Children’s Hospital in Boston. He is doing well, still not bearing weight on this new stumps but he doesn’t scream about accidentally banging it on something anymore. We were suppose to have his first prosthetics appointment yesterday but got 3 inches of snow that shut the world down. So tomorrow morning we have his first appointment and we are SO thankful to be on this side of the journey.

We are thankful for our friends, family, food on our table, a heater (stupid snow!), my hubby’s birthday (29 today!) and our sweet baby. Thankful for happy memories of our fur baby while blotting tears that we’re not outside throwing snow balls for her today. So thankful. I choose to stay in this spirit of thankfulness as I continue to process my life story. I choose thankfulness.

Psalm 30: 11-12, “You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing, You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy, that I might sing praises to you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever!”