Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was 10 days ago, and I am still contemplating my thankfulness. Having been out on a really tough drilling job for almost a month (still in progress), I am thankful for all those dear to me who have called to check on me and prayed over me. I am thankful for a wonderful wife and children who really long for me to be back home. I am thankful for all those people who count my company as valuable and let me know it, somehow drawing me closer to them and to Christ. Specifically, I am especially thankful for the Netzs, Fuquas, Neilsons, Barbers, Earlys, Watsons, Danleys, Butchers, Montgomerys, Katie, Jeremiah, Banks, Drew and others whom I count as family and for whom I hold a special place.

I am thankful for a home where I am free to serve God and live the way I choose, even with the problems we have here.

I am thankful for a Creator who degraded himself to the form of the created to purchase me from death, who paid with his life for my sins and ransomed me from destruction. I have something to celebrate, something worth while, something worth having.