My family. They are constantly teaching me, loving me, growing me, showing me, making me a better person every day as we share good meals and good conversations and read books together and talk theology and TV shows and everything else together and laugh together and do devotions together and play games together and watch movies together and become more sanctified together.
My education. I'm grateful that I got to start college two years early while still at home, I'm grateful for the credit hours I've accumulated, for the good feeling of tests passed and books put away and that clean, refreshing feeling of opening a new one, for fun courses and even the not-so-fun ones because they taught me perseverance, for getting to watch lectures in my pajamas and take tests with a cup of tea next to me, for passing Western Civilization II and Information Systems and Computer Applications, for growing as a student and as an individual.
New opportunities. I'm grateful for my license and the availability of my mom's car, for my new job and my fun co-workers, meeting new friends, going new places, reading new books, and all the new and exciting opportunities the Lord has seen fit to give me this year.
My other family. My church family really is like a second family to me, made up of a group of people who love to serve and love and care for each other and worship together and fellowship together and eat together and have fun together and pick up trash together (only five more days until our biannual church road cleanup!) and hang out at each other's houses and laugh together and play games together and get closer to Christ together.
Tea (among other miscellanies). I'm grateful for a hot cup of vanilla rooibus on a cold day, sweatshirts, my books, my cats, over a dozen copies of the Word of God sitting in my house, Spotify, cream soda in a glass bottle, living in Nova Scotia in the autumn, our piano, my grandparents both close and far, good friends (also close and far), the children's lit course I'm studying, running water, chances to write, soft beds, and new days.
God has given me a lot of physical things to be thankful for, things I take for granted every day. What are you thankful for?