Thankful Thursday

It’s cold out there again, so I’m thankful, once again, for a warm house. I’m thankful for a good furnace and draft-free windows. I’m thankful for the things that make my home a pleasant place in which to spend cold days: the two dogs and one cat, the blankets on the couch, the stocked fridge and cupboards, the books, the candles, the teapot, Kellogg’s Brown Sugar Flavour Mini-Wheats, and a jigsaw puzzle waiting to be started.

Can I say, too, that I’m thankful that January is almost half over?

I’m also thankful that my car is finally fixed properly. I’m thankful that the garage reduced my entire labour cost for the fix to $20 because I had to bring the car in so many times before they found out what was really wrong with it. (The whole deal, if you remember, started a week before Christmas.) I’m thankful that the fix, in the end, was an inexpensive one.

I’m thankful that God is in control of the big things and the small things. I’m thankful that God uses my circumstances, the joyful ones, the tragic ones, and the annoying ones (like cold weather and broken car and January) to conform me to the image of Christ.

I’m thankful for the Trinity. My reconciliation to God depends on God being Three-in-One.

Throughout this year I’m planning to post a few thoughts of thanksgiving each Thursday along with Kim at the Upward Call and others.