We spent the day in my grandparent's cabin in Island Park, Idaho (place near Yellowstone) with my Aunt Sherry, Uncle Greg, and their kids--my awesome cousins! We were missing Chris and his family, Molly and her family, and all the rest of our family living far away, but it was so good to see some extended family :) It was a beautiful, snowy day. We ate way too much (that lemon pie killed me), played lots of games and had a great time.
McCall and Eric on a walk
Making a "Sprite Ball"
I am thankful for so many things. God has blessed me with everything I could ask for. Lately I've been grateful for the challenges in life, because I feel like I'm learning so much from them. They're making me stronger. God is giving me the opportunity to fix my many weaknesses. He loves me and is helping me become the person I need to be.
Knowing that I am God's child is the thing I'm most grateful for this Thanksgiving. I am blessed to know who I am and where I'm going. I feel lost sometimes, but in the end, I know I have a purpose and I know I have the truth. I know that God sent his son, Jesus Christ, to atone and die for me so that someday I can return to live with them again. I know we are loved more than we can imagine, and that as we turn to Christ, he will change and heal us. He knows how we feel.
In my favorite scripture, Isaiah 53: 3-5, Isaiah wrote of Christ, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
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