..thanksgiving

I think that I had my heart Thanksgiving today. Yesterday was nice with the representative motions, but today I actually feel thankful. I guess I am just sitting here realizing how much in my life I have done nothing to obtain, yet have been amazingly blessed with. I had no control over where I was born, to what family, or in what social status. None of these crutal elements of my life were within my power to control and I thank God for the things that he has decided to place in my life. I stand in awe of the fact that I could sleep in a very warm house, wake up and eat a huge breakfast, and then go to the store and purchase items that I 'need'. These blessings in my life are things that I usually take for granted and often times I have the audacity to complain about them because they are not quite living up to my personal desires.

One of these blessing that I have chosen to complain about is my parents. As you can see [haha, like anyone actually reads these] from my earlier post, I was complaining yesterday about my dad. But I realized something today. I have been thinking about the definition of poverty that my Economic Geography teacher posed to our class on Wednesday. She defined poverty as "living without choices". When I look into the lives of my parents right now I can see tension in so many areas and I can also see that there is no choice in many of those areas. This realization made my heart break for them. I take for granted so quickly the incredible blessing of my choices. I have a blank canvas that defines the rest of my life. I rest so assuredly that God has a beautiful plan for my eternity and that it will start here on this earth. I don't really know where my parents are to be completely honest and I am not going to sit here and pretend like I have so much of everything all understood. I guess I am just really thankful for the place in life I am in right now.