Thankful Thursday, Take 7

Thanking God for...

• a date with my handsome husband last Saturday
• said husband's mad grilling skills
• vegetable beef soup, and the fact that I like it now (I wouldn't have touched it with a ten foot pole as a kid)
• a clean, no-longer-smelly dog, and a husband willing to help bathe him
• the gift of music
• sparkly pens
• changing my heart to enjoy cooking/baking
• the fabulous taste of yellow cake batter--which I believe I would choose for dessert of my last meal if I were on death row. Just give me a spatula and a mixing bowl full of the delightful stuff.
• cake batter ice cream, a brilliant invention that's almost as good as the real thing
• being "the God who sees" (Genesis 16)--not a distant, impersonal force but a loving, sovereign God who watches over every detail of my life and never slumbers nor sleeps
• the cross, which gives me reason to rejoice even in the midst of sorrow or pain

And you?