Thank You My Lord!

As I woke to this day I began by thanking God for the many, many blessings in my life.  I am now over 40 and feel more alive today than at any point in my life.

Today as I turn 41 I thank you my Lord for blessing me beyond anything I could have ever dreamt of.  I thank you for the grandparents and parents that I was born to.  While they are not perfect, they, each and every one, taught me about you---they never wavered in the belief that Jesus is the Son of God, our Lord and Savior.  They taught me to trust in you no matter what life sends your way.  They have shown me that during times of peril that we are to always, always turn our faces to you and fall upon our knees. 

Thank you for the husband that you joined me with.  He is truly my soul mate and loves me more than I deserve.  We are not only growing old together, we are growing in God together, which is greater than anything else we could ever do together.  Thank you my Lord for my wonderful, wonderful children.  They love me, but they love you even more and for that I am eternally grateful.  These two precious people have blessed me from the very moment that I met them and each day with them gets better and better. 

I stand in awe of my life, not because of the things that I possess, but because of the love that I feel from all those in my life.   And through that love I can sense your presence in every part of my life.  How fortunate am I that I have always known who you are.  How blessed am I that I never had to live a day without knowing your name. 

So as I think about all the blessings that you have bestowed upon my life, I also think about what I am doing in return.  I know that we don’t make it on works alone, but there is no doubt that there is a great work to do and I do want to be a part of that.  My goal is not just to make it to heaven, but to serve you daily, to lead others to you, and to make you smile when you hear my name.  I want to live my life for you because if I have learned anything in my 41 years, it is that living my life for you, following your will, is the greatest thing that I will ever do!

So I thank you once again for everything in my life and I ask you my Father, to be with me and my family, to guide me and direct me, and to lead me in the direction that I should go. In your precious, precious name I ask all these things.