I can't thank you enough!

"Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His love endures forever." Psalm 106:1

Ever get a gift so big that you are left breathless in surprise? You start to try to catch that breath and turn it into gratitude so fast you can't think straight! You cry, you laugh, you are overwhelmed and then with a big hug or a big smile you look the person who gave you that gift in the eye and tell them, "I can't thank you enough...."

I look at my life and my relationship with God and, while I am confident in Him to take care of me, I think I sometimes confuse my confidence with expectance of Him to take care of me. I sometimes forget to say Thank you to Him because with this confusion I think He is just doing His job..... Taking care of me. But I started to reflect on Thanksgiving this year and the ways we say thank you nowadays and the one way I feel that we should be constantly using is "I can't thank you enough!!!" Isn't this how we should live our lives in Christ? I should be walking around and with every other breath be thanking God for everything I do have and everything that I will have sooner or later, and everything that He has done for, in, and around me and my circumstances! I can't thank Him enough!

Look at what Jesus did for us! He sacrificed His life, died by taking on all the sin in the world past, present, and future. He did this so we could spend eternity with Him! Can you believe someone loves you so much that they would take the death sentance for your evil ways just so they could be with you forever? I can't imagine! I can't thank Him enough! I can never stop thanking Him because the earthly life I cling to so foolishly was what He gave up so we could be together forever!

As a coaches wife, there is more than just uncertainty! As I spoke with another wife last night she told me, "never think you're weird because this is a weird profession and if you feel your husband was called to coaching, know that you have a calling to be a coaches wife and sometimes being a coaches wife is weird!" Aside from uncertainty and weirdness, there is a backwards standard that people in any other walk of life can't understand exactly! Being able to come to terms with the weird and the good that coaching brings to life is something I can't do on my own! Going to God in prayer and petition and THANKSGIVING will be the only thing that will get anyone through the uncertain, happy, distraught, elated, and bland times in our lives!

The verse above states, "His love endures forever" No matter what situation I am in, I should praise and thank Him for nothing, in advance, and constantly because through this I experience His love which endures (def: To suffer patiently without yielding, To carry on through, despite hardships) Forever!

I hope you can't thank Him enough! I hope you will take time to find ways in your good and bad situations and emotions to be overwhelmed with gratitude towards our Lord and Savior! (for example if a UGA fan is giving you trouble, be thankful that He gives you peace so you, through your anger and disappointment, didn't punch them in the face! - A little quote from Georgia Tech's Paul Johnson)

Have a wonderful Holiday season! Enjoy the family and happiness the vacation time can bring! Remind yourself as you sing, "o come let us adore Him" that you can't thank Jesus enough for what the season really is about!