Thankful…

Today I want to write a little something of what I am grateful for. Gratitude helps to keep one focused on what's important. 

I am grateful for a loving and understanding wife. She is always willing to do the things no one else really wants to do, from laundry to helping with kids studies. She is truly a selfless person, putting her desires on the back burner to listen to my latest whim and offers her support and encouragement.  Her faith, in her family and God, is admirable

I am thankful that I have employment and that we have enough to meet and sometimes exceed our needs and wants. I am grateful for the continued success we experience and thank God for the blessing he has given us. 

I am grateful for technology and the ease it makes my daily tasks and correspondents. I love how I have whole libraries at my fingertips. This one is going to sound strange, I am grateful for a time of instant news, for the sins of the world being shouted from the roof tops (figuratively). Without which we would be hard pressed to find people of true character who live and abide by correct principles. 
I am thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. The message it brings of forgiveness and personal responsibility. The phrases that run thru my head almost continually are:

Maximum freedom, maximum responsibility

and

I of mine own self can do nothing (without God's help)

I am grateful that life needs to be endured. While trials, at times, feel like more than I want to endure, they are sobering. Bringing me back to where God wants me. They help to keep my focus on what is important and not get caught up in life's current (like a river's current) offering a tether to keep me from coasting down the waterfall behind me. 

Update on the Big News

I love the ideas that everyone presented as to what they thought the big news is. Because no one used the comment section to share their ideas and thoughts, I will post a few that I remember here.

•  I am writing a book
• I am going into politics
• We are going to have a baby
• We are going to start homeschooling the kiddos 
• We won the lottery and are buying all of the subscribers a new car (if this one is true you better subscribe)
• Maybe n8's big secret is that he bought his own network. That was what the Blaze guy did. I forget his name. (I liked this so much I just cut and pasted it)
• I am getting a pedicure

Well, thank you for all the wonderful ideas. If any of them are the news you will find it here, exclusively, in the middle of next week.