On the most thankful day of the year i am reflecting, as most people are, on the many things I have to be thankful for. Besides the obvious health, job, home, family and friends, there is something that I am eternally grateful for. I know my Savior. My Creator. My God. This being, the Great I AM, I know Him. Tonight rather than be filled with thanks I am struck by a grief that I do not treat Him like the King He is. I choose when I will talk to, and spend time with Him. What amazing closeness am I missing out on because I am not available? In my thankfulness I am committing myself to be open, humbled and just ready for a deeper relationship with the God who created, loved and saved me.

This is part of the "cast" of 13 Very Cool Stories. A fourteen week Wednesday night class Rob and I lead. We averaged about 16-23 kids a week. Tonight's cold dreary weather kept most of them away from the party. It was none the less a great night. The best part? We created this chart remembering mostly from just our own memory all 13 stories. Even though it has at times been loud wild and totally out of control they managed to store up some biblical truths in their own way. This got me thinking. I have been asked, even pressured lately why go to Belgium? You are needed here. Tonight it came to me. Working in pre-k environment is an amazing way to influence a child's early start to learning. Their love for knowledge is a life long building block. Lifelong. But I want to do something that affects eternity. Jesus is the only thing that will change a person's destiny, forever. And the only way I can accomplish that it to do exactly what God leads me to do. For our family He has lead us to Brussels. So we will forge on, answering the daily question of "When are you leaving?" with a smile and a "God's leading the way, He knows the date". And that is the truth. He knows the date and He's leading the way. I can rest in the assurance that He will finish the work He has begun.