So it's been a good month. :)
A lot has happened, and everyone that reads this blog already knows what basically happened, so i don't have to reiterate it haha.
Anyway....life is good.
Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day,
and even though we didn't really celebrate it (tomorrow is the day......OH soo excited....lol) we as Americans - even western caucasians for that matter - have a CRAZY amount to be thankful for.
And most of us take it for granted...which is sad.
We have food available to us whenever we want,
we have at least $20 available to us, which makes us richer than 2/3 of the world already,
we have homes,
we have families,
we have pets,
we don't have to work as children,
till high school, we have free education,
we have scholarships to help us get the non free education,
we have freedom of religion,
we have sanitary conditions,
we don't have crazy scary diseases,
we have medical care,
we can buy what we want,
we have freedom of speech,
we have internet,
we have phones,
we have electricity,
we have water,
and i can go onnn....and onn........and on.
But we have alllll this stuff.
And we take it for granted...and get used to it,
and don't think about how most people in the world live....
without a lot of the stuff on that list. and then we're like...oh...i can't afford to give to the poor. yeah right. crock of bull. i do this too, don't worry. i'm like....i can't afford to tithe. i'm a poor college student. but yet i can go to the mall and buy shoes or clothes. hmmm. that is my personal thing to work on - tithing - and giving to the people who need it anyone....ANYONE can give to the poor. it doesn't have to be money - it can be time. or in food.
talking to them.
helping an old lady cross a street.
does that cost any money?? i don't think so.
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that last paragraph is so true. I'm so sick of hearing about the "poor college kid" thing, very very few college kids in America know what it's like to truly be poor.
tithing is a tough habit to maintain when there are so many other things out there to buy that are around every corner.
good stuff.
and by the way, December is Monday, not tomorrow, or today or whenever you said it was haha.
amen sister. We are so blessed...it's ridiculous.
indeeed...i didn't truly realize how much i took things for granted till i moved to Venezuela heh.
hot water. running water. food. hard roof. cars. health. so many little things that can so easily be taken for granted...and yet can prove to be big issues here.
In the end though I'm glad God makes it a point to remind us of those things and point out the things He blesses us with, even when it's not Thanksgiving day. :)
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