An Eye Toward Canaan…

It hit me today that 30 happens in two days. This Saturday, I will have lived for a total of three decades. I don’t feel like I’m thirty; in fact part of me feels like I stopped getting older right around 25. But I am excited about the things that could happen to me in this decade — starting a family? Moving to Africa? Our first publication? May God be more glorified in my 30’s than he was in my 20’s.

30 Things I’m Thankful for (not necessarily in order):

1. my salvation
2. my husband
3. our home
4. our ministries (church and writing)
5. my job and co-workers
6. our small group
7. our families
8. our tenants, who are also friends
9. our educations
10. the junior highers we teach on Wednesdays
11. God’s grace at work in my life daily
12. the bible
13. the Holy Spirit
14. the volunteer team we work with on Wednesday nights
15. good books (even though I don’t have time to read them)
16. my piano
17. itunes
18. free caffeine at work
19. my husband…or since I already said that — our marriage
20. the opportunity to host Helen Roseveare at this year’s NatCon
21. the opportunity to go to Uganda in 2006
22. our new printer
23. Haley and Roger haven’t moved yet
24. I’m finally going to learn how to sew
25. friends I’ve had since college — we’ve been friends for a decade now! I should probably tell you all about my blog.
26. I Thess. 5:9-10, my new favorite verse of all time
27. the hope that I have in Jesus Christ
28. ice cream
29. breaking into a new salary bracket
30. birthday presents