Days of Thankfulness 4...Twenty Things

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. This is the last Friday in the month of November, and my last "Days of Thankfulness post," well for now. My hope is that I stay thankful for the rest of my life.

My thanksgiving was laid-back and nice. I made the turkey and sweet potatoes casserole for the first time. :) The former was okay, but the latter was a hit. My friends and I decided to also spend Christmas eating Thanksgiving food, and I have volunteered to cook the turkey again with lessons learned from last night. lol

Below are the list of things I am thankful for

• Salvation and Jesus.
• The gift and passion for writing
• The trials I get to walk through and the character developed in me as I walk through them
• A positive mind and attitude
• The desire to succeed
• JostWrite...my babies (The freelance writing business and the blog)
• My weaknesses
• My strengths
• Being wanted
• My Family (Parents and siblings)
• The chance to dream and build
• Having the God of the universe on my side
• The possibilities that the future brings
• My drive and ambition
• My desire to give, share, love and live a life bigger than my parents and their dreams for me.
• The passion to enjoy my life and enjoy it abundantly
• The desire I have to make everyone feel wanted and worthy
• That I am open to loving people of all races, lifestyles, cultures and opinions. I do not always succeed at it, but I am thankful that I made up my mind a long time ago that I would not let the pain of the past make me become what I detest. I am going to shout out and fight about racism, sexism and other kinds of inequality and injustice. I am going to stand on the moral values that I believe in based on the scripture and declare them as lovingly as I can. But I promised myself that I will love each individual, and I will give you a chance to love me.

I am ultimately thankful that

• "Ears have not heard
  Eyes have not seen
  No mind has conceived
  The things that God has planned for me"
• “God can dream a bigger dream for me, than I ever could for myself.”

To read my other "Days of Thankfulness" posts, click here, here and here

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