Count your blessings!

Before I left for BA, my mom gave me a book called "The Good and Beautiful God." I just finished a chapter about God being trustworthy. At the end of each chapter, the author (James Bryan Smith) gives a "soul training" exercise and this chapter's exercise was to make a list of blessings. I have countless things to be thankful for, but here are just a glimpse of my blessings here in BA:

my padre and madre
my hermanas
casa holden
our group
empanadas
agua sin gas
the park
when my little sisters play with my ipod
when Jesi and Eli hang out with me and my friends
convo dinners
asado
house church
bible studies
cheap food
EFT's
long weekends
laughter around the casa
dulce de leche
serving at Adulam
the overwhelming feeling of happiness when I am with my friends
skyping with my family back home
deep conversations
walking home listening to my ipod
our little dog Shaggy greeting me when I walk through the door
the feeling of being so incedibly BLESSED when I walk to and from school everyday!

Smith gives a quote from David Crowder that I just love:
"When good is found and we embrace it with abandon, we embrace the Giver of it... Every second is an opportunity to praise. There is choosing to be made. A choosing at each moment. This is the Praise Habit. Finding God moment by revelatory moment, in the sacred and the mundane, in the valley and on the hill, in triumph and tragedy, and living praise erupting because of it. That is what we are made for."



Besos xoxo