Thankful Thursday: When it rains, it pours...

It's either life is like this in general, or my life has a special knack for taking the piss.

It's gotten so regular that i can predict certain things like clockwork...premonitions, confirmation, chain reaction...it's all so ridiculous sometimes that you just want to cry...there is no energy to even be upset or angry...just neutral tears...

You know...all loneliness wants from us is to spend time with us...And somehow, we keep running, looking for people and things to spend time with so that we can avoid it...but all it wants...is to cosy up with us...and we act like it has cooties...it provides the one thing we seek in our marathon escaping it...It's there when nothing else is...reliable, welcoming, open arms ready to comfort..why do we insult it so?

I am thankful for life

I am thankful for God

I am thankful for books

I am thankful for prayer

I am thankful for my family

I am thankful for work

I am thankful for words

I am thankful for blessings

I am thankful for favour

I am thankful for understanding

I am thankful for wisdom

I am thankful for experience

I am thankful for solitude

I am thankful for who He is making me

I am thankful for God's love

I am thankful for sleep

I am thankful for laughter

I am thankful for peace

I am thankful for our trainer :P cool people!

I am thankful for new things

I am thankful for finished chapters

I am thankful for moving on

I am thankful for being true to myself

I am thankful for music

I am thankful for routine

I am thankful for changes

I am thankful for distraction

I am thankful for numbness

I am thankful for feelings

I am thankful for letting go

I am thankful for Love

I am thankful for Joy

I am thankful for contentment

I am thankful for food

I am thankful for kindness

I am thankful for patience

I am thankful for communication

I am thankful for pain

I am thankful for tears

I am thankful for beauty

I am thankful for nautre

I am thankful for art

I am thankful!

Thankful Thursday: 1, 2, 3.

1. Do not ever let anyone intimidate you.

2. Thrive wherever you are planted, no matter the conditions...Work as though for God and not man.

3. Faith.

I am thankful for Life.

I am thankful for God.

I am thankful for Literature...

I am thankful for the opportunity to read all the books i have practically consumed in the last couple of weeks. Stieg Larsson was a blessed person!

I am thankful for Wisdom

I am thankful for music

I am thankful for my family

I am thankful for Grace

I am thankful for blessings

I am thankful for favour

I am thankful for my co-workers

I am thankful for the atmosphere at work

I am thankful for patience

I am thankful for understanding

I am thankful for forgiveness

I am thankful for love

I am thankful for my mother

I am thankful for my relationships with my family members

I am thankful for growth

I am thankful for change

I am thankful for chance

I am thankful for consistency

I am thankful for laughter

I am thankful for humour

I am thankful for faith

I am thankful that He leads us to where we are meant to be according to His perfect plan...one step at a time

I am thankful for His love

I am thankful for inspiration

I am thankful for lessons learned

I am thankful for thicker skin

I am thankful for resolutions...That have dawned on me while being enacted. Resolutions declared rarely yield positive results

I am thankful for prayer

I am thankful for kindness

I am thankful for positivity

I am thankful for good people..they exist. In varying shades of permanency

I am thankful that i have God, and nothing else matters. He sees everything, and He is fair and Just.

I am thankful for unanswered prayers

I am thankful that i have so much to be thankful for. Whatever i want and don't have, there's a good reason behind it. We shouldn't let focus on these things make us ungrateful for everything else. That i am thankful about so much doesn't mean i don't have pain you cannot even begin to imagine...i just know that it's not permanent...so we man up and move on...

I am thankful!

Thankful Thursday: No regrets.

It's very simple, really. Straightforward as the title. No regrets. Of course there are things i think i would have  handled differently, given the chance. Of course i'm not sanctioning mistakes i've made or saying they are good and everyone should have a go. However, i do not regret any period or phase in my life, because they have led me to this very place i am right now. And this is a place, space that i'm quite content in. No, i have not peaked, no, i have not attained everything attainable...but that is not a problem for one minute. I have my whole life ahead of me, God willing, and there are things that are yet to happen, and have their own time and place.

The more i pay attention to the picture of my life, the clearer i see the connections, causes and effects, how things happen with that perfect timing that God has. At any given moment in time, i have everything i NEED. It may not be everything i want or crave, but as God is my witness, it's exactly what i need. God always sets it up such that there is a seamless transition between one phase and the next. He always provides a getaway when things get too much. He changes my scenery just at the point when i can't stand the previous one any longer in any way, He moves me on to the next. Lessons learned along the way, wisdom, and growth...Yup, i have no regrets. o

Maybe it's the same for everyone, maybe God wires our lives different, but i know that a long time ago i turned it all over to Him, and live with the trust and faith that He is in control, and whatever happens in my life, happens according to His will...and when i run away and try to go against it, He always leads me back, takes the situation, and shapes it into the way He intended..

So i am thankful. I am beyond thankful. My soul is doing that thing where it feels like it's swollen with joy and bursts out of my body in random smiles, and even more random tears. Have you ever been there? have you ever been so joyful you want to cry?

What am i happy about? Life. Here, now. His presence in it. It's that simple. It's nothing spectacular at the same time as it is everything amazing. He calmed my fears, he soothes my anxiety away, He provides for me, He protects me, He bestows favour upon me, He gives me joy. This is why i'm happy. Because God makes it all okay. And it is. All okay that is..and me? I'll be fine..i always am. :)

I am thankful for Life

I am thankful for God

I am thankful for my mother

I am thankful for my sisters

I am thankful for my father

I am thankful for my grandparents

I am thankful for the favour He smothers me in

I am thankful for my Uni

I am thankful for Miss O, who hooked me up with this internship/job...God bless her over and over again. Y'all should say a prayer!

I am thakful for my job

I am thankful for the people at work

I am thankful for encouragement

I am thankful for my friends

I am thankful for love

I am thankful for Joy

I am thankful for Church

I am thankful for sleep

I am thankful for communication

I am thankful for inspiration

I am thankful for growth

I am thankful for new beginnings

I am thankful for shedding skin...figuratively, not literally..i am not a reptile.

I am thankful for humour

I am thankful for books

I am thankful for literature in general..words, language

I am thankful for God's blessings

I am thankful for all those little things He put into my life along the way that are suddenly the big things and decide big, important things

I am thankful for trust

I am thankful for prayer

I am thankful for His faithfulness

I am thankful for forgiveness

I am thankful for Time

I am thankful for Understanding

I am thankful for patience

I am thankful for wisdom

I am thankful for His peace

I am thankful for His Love

I am thankful!

Everything i am, is by the Grace of God. And for this, i am humbled and thankful and so very joyful.