Since this is Thanksgiving week and I won't be celebrating (well, we have our new regional commanders' welcome but it won't be Thanksgiving), I decided to write every day this week and talk about something I'm thankful for. Of course, I'm already one day behind! So, today 2 things:
1. I am so thankful for God's word and that He continues to teach me new things through His Word and His people. 2 new ideas I had recently came as I listened to the cadets. As they were giving presentations on our doctrine about eternal things, each one of them mentioned an important truth about death. It was not God's original purpose for us. We were created to live forever with Him, but then sin came along. I got distracted for a bit and thought about Lazarus' death and that little verse "Jesus wept." I ocurred to me that maybe Jesus was weeping not just about Lazarus and his family but for all of us. He knew that death was not supposed to be part of life and he grieved for us. A question I can ask Him in Heaven! Then on Sunday at the Riga 2 corps we were thinking about coming together for worship and how special that was. Well, that's what I was thinking anyway and I also got distracted and began thinking about the Sabbath as God created it. I had been reading in both in Jeremiah and Mark that morning about the Sabbath, keeping it and keeping it for the right reasons and in the right ways, not as ritual. So, I thank God for the Sabbath. God knew that I (and all of us) would never find time to spend a day in worship and away from work unless He put it in the plan from the beginning. Thank God for Sundays!

2. Today I thank God for packages! I got 2 this week. One from the Winters with a really fun movie, Elizabethtown. I love it! The second today from THQ, really Kristin and Lisa, filled with mail, movies and thanksgiving gifts. Thank God for friends who send packages!

What are you thankful for?