So Grateful

 
This month has flown by! I can't believe it's half over and I've got a very busy two weeks ahead of me, I know it'll be Christmas before I know it! But this last weekend, while it was nothing extraordinary, I felt an immense sense of gratitude for all I have. It may just be the seasons talking but, I have a truly blessed and beautiful life.
  We didn't go on any amazing dates, I worked all day Saturday, Chad cut the lawns, we did a few loads of laundry. It was a very normal weekend but in between the day to day, we were reminded just how special our little family is. It was no spectacular event or divine revelation, we just saw each other and realized we're all we need. I'm perfectly happy with my family. My husband loves me in a way that comforts me, pushes me and inspires me. My son has a purity and uniqueness to his soul that leaves me learning and growing along with him every day. When the 3 of us are together, we can't help saying "I love you" over and over. Studying marriage and family relations over the years I've developed a sense of complexity with the word LOVE. But Liam has taught me that Love is actually a very simple concept that adults complicate, add limitations to and make fragile. With Liam, love is effortless, simple and all-inclusive. I'm grateful for his huge heart and his courageous love for everyone and everything. I'm learning that through my family, I can learn to love the way the Savior loves. I feel it with Chad and with Liam, and I know as I practice selflessness and learn from my boys, I can better love everyone around me. I feel like being able to feel, share and express His love is a personalized gift from the Savior to me, wrapped up in a bow and delivered by my family for us to share together. I know the Saviors loves is available to all men but that's whats great about love, its inclusive and personal at the same time.

Here comes the boom...

  I'm so grateful for my family, for my eternal marriage and the covenants that guide me daily. I'm grateful for my husbands forgiving, loving and humorous heart. For my sweet, tenderhearted, learning-loving, strong willed, talkative little Liam. I don't deserve him, but I'm so grateful Gods blessed us with his presence in our lives.

  I'm grateful for personal revelation and the guidance and peace it provides my family in this crazy stage in our lives. I'm grateful for our fantastic extended family and the support and love that we feel constantly. We know they'll always be there for us.This Thanksgiving we have less ( in terms of earthly possessions) then we have ever had but we have more blessings than we could ever imagine and our life is full. We've never had so much risk and uncertainty and felt so much peace and  assurance at the same time and we know it's the Lords hand gently guiding us to our next blessing. Lastly and perhaps most importantly I'm grateful for the knowledge and perspective that the gospel and the Saviors love gives me. It makes hard times purposeful and progressive and the good times all the sweeter.

Happy Thanksgiving