Today, I have come to the re-realization that I am truly and insanely blessed.

I feel like compiling a short list of things I can be thankful for, right now -

1) The fact that I have a computer, the internet, can type and read what I am typing.

2) The fact that I have a roof over my head and family under it that love me too!

3) The fact that I am part of an amazing church, filled with very talented, blessed people who help me to used my talents to serve my awesome God.

4) The fact that I have friends, like one who had coffee with me today, who love me and are willing to put up with me and love me despite my failings.

5) The fact that I live in a country of freedom and education – as a woman I can be educated at a public school and have been given the right to learn, that is a wonderful thing.

6) The fact of motorized vehicles – without the bus to get me to school in the morning, I would be a very depressed person.

7) The fact of a loving Savior, and a jealous God. He refuses to leave me as I am, He loves me and that means he wants me to be better than I am, that He wants me to desire to be like Him.

God is good! All the time!
All the time! God is good!

Happy Fourth everyone! Here is my first blog on WordPress, and hopefully it will be a good one.

Basically, it hit me today, that we really need to be thankful for the country that we live in. We need to be thankful because it is a place where we can worship God without fearing for our lives (though sometimes I think that might be hard to remember we war against unseen forces, and that it’s not just our physical bodies in danger…hmmm…maybe I’ll write another blog on that later). It is a place that has freedom, and it is a wonderful thing.

We also need to be thankful for the men and women who have fought for this county’s freedom over the years. A lot of people have been protesting the war and President Bush, and I just want to say that, as unfortunate as it is, without war, you would not have the freedom to dis the leader of our country. President Bush is doing what he believes to be best for the country and the world -I’d like to see what would happen if we let all these people who hate on Bush into office and see what would happen if they had to deal with the same things.

Well, now I am off to bed, seeing as it’s late again, and I have work in the morning!

God bless America, my home sweet home.

–Caitlyn