What are you the most thankful for?

[dub]

I am thankful for four wheel drive. I had my kids in my truck diving where four-wheelers go. Then down about a twenty foot drop off and back up the other side. Kids squealing and laughing. My six year old made me do over and over. Get home to my wife looking at me with that look. Now that is Thanksgiving for me.

[T-Bob Parker]

My wife and I are in Louisiana visiting her grandmother in the nursing home and I saw so many elderly folks  sitting in the hallways waiting for family who probably weren't coming and it almost made me tear up. This last year my wife and I both lost our very lucrative jobs. We had to put our home and acreage up for lease,  then we had to take a Loss in the sale of a couple vehicles but through all of this God blessed us with a beautiful healthy baby girl and a couple of jobs that put food on the table and keep the lights on. When I looked at the hopeless desperation in the old gray eyes of the lonely folks in that nursing home, it made me thankful that God gave me health and strength and a work ethic that drives me to keep plodding along with faith in his promises. I am now a youth pastor and I work with kids who have everything they could ever desire and while I love those kids like play cousins, I am now all the more thankful for the fact that I have what I have.

Gods word says consider it all pure joy when you encounter hardships of many kinds because the testing of your faith moulds godly character. I Finnally get it
Thank you God

[tnhillbilly]

X 2 on everything,   but i am most thankful that while we were yet a sinners CHRIST died for us.  He had to reach WAY DOWN for me.  I am thankful for salvation,  my 4 beautiful children, a good place to sleep, shoes on my feet, and plenty to eat,  all my internet hog huntin friends,  my health, job, .................. the list just goes on and on,    and still cant be thankful enough.

[rdjustham]

After the shooting i was in and the motorcycle crash a week later I am thankful to still be alive and get to see the smile on my sons face..

[boarmom]

Thanks to all of you that responded to my post.  It was exciting to read what people are thankful for.  Many of your posts touched my heart.  God Bless!!