Thankful

I know last week was thanksgiving, but I just have so much to be thankful for today. For the past 3 months I have been very sick. It was really hard for me to have a good outlook on things and be really excited to have this baby when I couldn't keep any food down. BUT God is so good and His mercies are new every morning. I have been able to go to almost all my classes, I was able to help out with work program in the afternoon and I have been able to go to more social events! I was so energized the other day. I had made it to all my classes and work program and I found out one of our friends on campus is expecting a baby 3 weeks after me. I was going crazy that night! (You can ask Brion and he'll tell you how nuts I really am)

Anyway, whether we are throwing up everything we eat or waking up feeling full of energy, God is working in us regardless. We can learn so much in our down times if we just listen. It's hard to be thankful when things aren't going as we planned them, but it helps remind us that we are not in control. Our plans are not always the best thing for us. I would not wish morning (or all day) sickness on anyone, but I had to depend on God for absolutely everything and I think it was a good lesson for me. It was also awesome to see Brion's willingness to do everything around the house and I am even more thankful that God put such an awesome, godly man in my life.

I am thankful for God and how wonderful He truly is to us. I am thankful for my amazing, diligent, hard-working, loving, husband. I am thankful for the little sweat pea growing inside me and the privilege Brion and I have of soon becoming parents. I am thankful for the wonderful family that I have and the family that I married into. I am thankful for the friends that I have had for ages and for the new ones that we have just made in the past few months.

It is hard being away from family, especially because I am growing into this huge person and none of them get to see it, but I am so glad that God brought us to Canada. Even though it is really hard going through some of this stuff without them, this is where God wants us and I have never been more sure of anything in my life.

God is good all the time. I am so happy that I finally feel like a human being again. I am also happy that I was able to snag some free maternity pants from our mission barrel, because I can't even try to rubber band my pants shut anymore! God is always faithful to us and He knows exactly what we need, when we need it. We serve a Mighty God!