carrying gratitude in my bones.

• "make me a vessel. make me an offering.  make me whatever you want me to be." - new wine/hillsong
• papa's chocolate cake - and his determination to keep it hidden so that I could have as much as I wanted. 
• hearing a pastor say something along the lines of "I don't network...it may be what God has other people doing but it's not what God's asked me to do." 
• thanksgiving walk in the woods with Zoe in the sling - and this beautiful sunset to end the day

• laying/resting/reading/marco-poloing on the camo couch
• all the relevant podcasts (in particular the newest one "unedited")
• MaMa made it out to the cabin so much
• kids' shenanigans and pumpkin smashing

•  how careful cash kids were on the 4-wheelers
• wings + pizza + GA game + family
• good quotes

• "this is a call to all the dead and disappointed.  the ones that feel like they are done.  this is a word to all the ones that feel forgotten - you are not.  we're alive...in You." - Alive/All Sons and Daughters  
• a beautiful, God orchestrated and ordained triangle of adoption conversation - an adopted son, a mother of 2 adopted children and me.  
• decorating the cottage...and LJ's excitement

• texts with bean.  real questions. real answers. honesty all around. 
• "christmas spirit" gift from Laura Lea (God is so very kind)
• reading david crowder's Praise Habit with the kiddos...and responses to the Psalms

• how very wonderful Thursday nights with community group are - one of THE BEST conversation topics has got to be God's been faithful and where we've seen Him at work. 
• when a cash kid (or really any kid...but especially a cash kid) shares a piece of their heart with me
• Melinda's thanksgiving letters to me, nick and Zoe
• Katie's kind, encouraging and helpful words