25 Thanks
- People who have welcomed me into their lives
- People who have taught me what matters in life and shown me what doesn't
- The ability and opportunity to earn money
- The NLT Bible translation
- Chocolate chip cookies
- The ability and opportunity to make music
- The ability and opportunity to listen to music
- The gym
- Coworkers I enjoy being around
- Paid work that is not boring
- Music streaming services providing a wide variety of music
- Thanksgiving meal leftovers
- Refrigerators which preserve food
- God’s compassion and patience when I take a long time to learn hard lessons
- Friends’ and family’s compassion and patience when I take a long time to learn hard lessons
- A mind and body that can learn new things
- Modern airplanes that allow us to travel across the world in a matter of hours
- Patient flight attendants and fellow airplane passengers
- Audio messages
- Sweatpants
- The writers who have come before me who inspire me to write
- The musicians who have come before me who inspire me to make music
- The people who have loved big who inspire me to love big
- God’s grace that has carried me then and carries me now
- The love of my life
In no particular order, some of the things I am grateful for this year. See 2021 , 2022, and 2023 lists