He loves me when I am unlovely.  He insists on making my coffee every morning.  He always remembers our anniversary, even of our first date.  He goes to work every day to a job that is hard, and comes home and serves us, does for us, helps us, then he helps others too.  He loves to see me smile, and he has always been a great dad to his kids.  He is patient and kind and sweet, slow to anger, slow to speak,  and puts his own wants and needs last, always.  He worries that he has not done enough, or given enough, but he has given all that he has and held nothing back.  We laugh together a lot, and cry together sometimes, pray together very very often.  He is my knight in shining armor, my hero and my best friend.  That’s my husband and I am so blessed.

God gave us two amazing sons.  They are respectful and delightful and precious, smart, funny, helpful and kind, they do as we ask,  obey our rules, and love us while doing it.  We laugh together, cry together, play and sing,  pray and worship together. They are strong and wise for their age, and love the Lord Jesus.   Those are our sons, and they are teens, and we are so blessed.

I go to a church where the pastors are humble with servant-hearts,  and love the Lord, and know the Word, and the people care and call to check on us when we are sick, and help each other when someone is in need, and still have prayer meeting on Wednesday nights.   That is our church, and we are so blessed.

I have cousins and friends (old and new), parents and brothers, a lifetime worth of relationships and memories.   Whenever I have needed a friend, I have always had one.  Through hard times, through good times, through tragedy and loss, triumph and celebration.  I have been so blessed.

I love my husband and my boys more than life itself, but there is One I love more, because He loved me first.  More than life itself.  His name is Jesus.   He is my Savior.  He has walked with me through it all.   He has picked me up when I fell, He has humbled me when I was proud, He has answered my questions and answered my prayers, and paid for my sins, and given me His Book and a River of Life to drink from that can never run dry.  Every one of those many blessings have come only from His hand. And today I just want to thank Him.  Because I am so blessed.