Thankful day 17

Day 17. This is getting hard. Harder than I thought it would be to do a thankful post everyday. Mostly because I want my posts to be about something other than things. That would be easy, I could just go through my closet, or walk through my rooms full of stuff and pick random things to be thankful for. But there is so much in my life that I take for granted or just forget to say thank-you for. There is also a lot that I am thankful for but don't want to blog about because then you would know that I am flawed, imperfect, make mistakes, and need to make improvements.

But then those of you that know me personally already know that about me. That I am at times impatient, judgemental and sometimes downright unreasonable. My house is never as clean as I would like it to be. I weigh more than I should, I waste too much time on trivial pursuits and speak sharply to my children when what they want is an understanding mother. I worry to much about my own comfort levels and not enough about those that go without. And I definately do not do enough to help others.

So today what I am thankful for the most is that I don't have to have all of those things corrected, perfected, changed before the clock strikes 12 tonight. What I do have to do is to recognize them and work on changing them and do better tomorrow than I did today. I am thankful for a Father in Heaven who knows me and understands that even when I am trying, I am going to fall short and mess up. And I am thankful that He made the sacrifice of His only Begotten Son so that in the end it will be alright.

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Indeed.