Day 3: siblings

Today I am thankful that I have a good relationship with my siblings. They are a huge part of my life. I love just living life with them and talking and hanging out and studying...but mostly I'm glad that they're there. And that we're friends

Day 2: encouraging conversations

Today I am thankful for encouraging conversations. Especially the kind that come when you don't expect. 

Day 1: life

Today I am thankful for life. Not just life, like the things that happen in my life and the way people say "well, that's life." I mean being alive. I am thankful for the breath that I breath. When you think about it, you can't really do anything to be alive to start with. I mean, I can't make my blood carry the oxygen to the rest of my body. I can sit here and think about it, but I can't make it happen by thinking about it. I can't make my body live. I can reach out my hand and pick something up by thinking about it, but I can't "think" my body into life. So, life must be a gift, I suppose. Because I can't do anything to make it happen. 

But the thing I'm really thankful for today is that God deemed it important that I should be born. I am thankful for the life, the living, that He has gifted me with. Just thinking about how He created me specially and that He delights in me is amazing. He created me to glorify Him and bring Him pleasure. So maybe just my being alive makes God happy. When I delight in life and wonder in the world He created, I imagine that makes Him happy too. 

So I guess living life is not just a gift that He gives to me, but a gift I can give back to Him.

365 days of thankfulness

Starting in the next few days, I am going to be doing a series called 365 Days of Thankfulness. My goal will be to post one thing that I am thankful for each day, in other words, to intentionally count the blessings God has given me. I decided to start a blog for this project because I believe accountability will help motivate me as I establish thankfulness as a part of my life. I will be moderating comments to ensure that the blog atmosphere stays on course and uplifting :) 

Will you join me for the journey?

The beauty of normal

First to clarify something: Eilís is not my normal name. And I am not a normal person. What I mean is, if you described...wait. If I described normal, my perceived idea of normal: went to high school, had a part time job, two or three steady boyfriends, went straight to college after graduation, made life-long friends, now working a full time job. Yeah. Not my life. At all. But that's okay. This isn't about that kind of normal. This is about life. Appreciating the seeming mediocrity and normality of life. Because life can be beautiful. And sometimes we miss it. We overlook it. And that's what this is about. The beauty of normal.