Thankful Thursday

Yes, I know it's Friday, but this week has been intense.

I started a new job roughly two weeks ago working at an assisted living facility. I specifically work in the memory care department. It's rewarding and trying all a the same time, 

Right now, I'm thankful for that job. It's hard and complicated yes, but at the same time I'm not attached to a head set. I'm up, moving around. Doing things. 

I'm on a learning curve that goes two ways in a sense. I have to learn memory care and how to plan things that people in that division will want to do. 

At the same time though, it's something as simple as taking a woman in a wheelchair back and forth in a little yard. Just a few times. Or talking with them and painting their nails. 

As always,  

In Search Of. . . Observations: Thankful Thursday

All right, so what am I thankful for today. I'm thankful for reminders. Not people calling and reminding me, but the small ones that remind you that you're all right. 

Normally, most everything I try to do explodes. 

If you don't believe me, check out the blog posts about my LA Trip. I'm not kidding. That is my life. I struggle with nearly everything, and more often than not I think this blog should be called "I'm an idiot: A saga of how I bumble through life." 

Aside from being a really long title, I occasionally am allowed to do something right. 

I know this is dumb, but I get a lot of validation from my cooking. Probably because I love food. One of my greatest worries is serving something that doesn't taste good. Even if I made the thing a million and one times before, I'm still afraid I'll screw it up some how. 

For example, one year I don't know what my mom and I did, but some how we managed to cook the egg solid in the pumpkin pie. 

I could really write several novels about the way I screw myself up. It's so bad that I don't need any enemies. Sometimes when I double, triple, and quadruple check myself. 

That huge intro to say this. God reminded me last night that not everything is going to go wrong. 

I'm actually kind of proud of this. 

My apple pie won first prize at the church pie contest last night. Granted, I don't think I had very much competition, but still I won. It doesn't seem huge, but it is when everything you try to do goes wrong.

And it's not the huge things that make us proud of ourselves either. It's the tiny little pie contest. 

I know it's a dumb thing to be thankful for, but really. I had no expectations. I don't win; I don't do well. 

God allowed me to see that all the times aren't bad times. I can do things right. 

Anyway, that's my little piece of thankfulness for this Thursday.

As always. 

In Search Of. . . Written Words: Thankfulness

In Search Of. . . Written Words: Thankfulness

So, I'm having a hard time writing this. Every thing sounds so cliche in my brain. You know at Thanksgiving, when the teacher goes around and asks all the kids what they're thankful for. My family my parents, God.

You know the general list. I wanted something a little deeper than that. Obviously I'm thankful for those things, but they're so general.



I want to take this moment though and be thankful for God's providence. He seems to align things perfectly. It may not be the way I want it to happen, but it's all right. It all works out in the end. I get exactly what I need.
The job I have. Granted, it wouldn't be my first choice; it's a phone job, but it has provided me with everything I need. It pays my bills, lets me buy things I want. It's given me time off and money to go on trips around America and even one out of the country. It's been steady work, in such an unsteady climate.



I'm thankful that series of events, both good and bad landed me with two cars. God, in his providence saw that I would need two. He also saw that I had mechanics for Uncles who are willing to help me provided I buy parts. I wish I could explain how much cheaper that is.


I guess, all in all, I'm thankful for God's forethought and providence in my life.
I know I don't have a charmed life? Who does? But it's a good life. Even when I'm down and low, I have to recognize that.


As always,