Thankful Tuesday

In the Blogosphere, there exists this tradition of Thankful Tuesday.  I love the simplicity of it, as well as the grounding effect it can have.  I've been admiring other writers' Thankful Tuesday posts, so I'm going to give it a stab myself.

* I'm thankful for my boy and for that MLK, Jr. day three years ago when I learned of his existence. 

* I'm thankful for Community Group assignments that take me back in time.  Studying the Book of John with our group and having cause to open another book that has long sat on a shelf.  Instantly being transported back to college and days that were long with both fear and wonder at this thing called adulthood.

* I'm thankful for smoothies!  Collin calls them "moonies", and he can drink a bigger "moonie" than Jarrod and I can put together.  The kid loves them.

* I'm also thankful for new finds.  This stuff alters the taste of a smoothie slightly, and definitely changes the color, but it's not that bad!  Also, I will gladly forgive it for the above mentioned cons because it contains so many pros.

* I'm thankful for Mumford & Sons.  For their words and for their melancholy melodies that can sound new even after so many listens.

* I'm thankful for Giada's White Bean & Chicken Chili - yum!  (Minus the fennel.  I had a bad experience with fennel.)

* And lastly, for this guy... Donald Miller and his eternal perspective. 

Perhaps before we get too excited or too deflated about this week’s inauguration we can remember the One that is to come. This is not a terrible event, nor is it our hope. It is just people creating earthly governments in a life after and still before God. 

(Excerpted from "Inauguration and the Need for a King", Jan. 21, 2013)