Faith, Love & Truth
Today I am thankful for an entire day of Christmas shopping with my Mama. I so looooove shopping days with my Mama and treasure it. After all, she’s the one that trained me to be the shopper I am 🙂 Although I have to admit, she can still out-shop me. Our days are always filled with lots of laughing, LOTS of me searching stores for her (I still don’t understand how she can disappear so quickly) and some super yummy food. PERFECTION!!!!
Today I am thankful for books. Books may seem like a slightly weird thing to be thankful for if you aren’t a book lover. But if you are one, you totally get it. I’ve been in love with reading for as long as I can remember. I am so so super thankful for a Mama who encouraged me to read. Growing up, every night my Mama and I would shut the TV off early (some nights at 8 pm) and go to bed and read. Some of my fav memories are snowy Sunday afternoons. After church and after the dinner dishes were cleaned up, we would each find our own spot in the living room to curl up under a blanket to read. I would be in my chair and she would be in hers. I didn’t want to play video games, or spend hours of my life watching TV; I just wanted to get lost in a book.
Books have been a major part of my growing process as a Christian, wife, mother, friend and adult. I absolutely love reading and, during that book, realizing more about myself.
But it’s more than that, there is a connection between words and I. My mama says it’s because I’m wordy 🙂 It’s one of the reasons I enjoy blogging. And I feel completely blessed that part of that blogging is doing book reviews.
Today I am thankful for being able to hold this amazing mans hand during worship. It’s one of my fav things about Sunday mornings. Super love listening to God’s word with him beside me. It’s the little things like this that are big things to me.