17th of November - New Faces

I was wondering today if I will ever run out of things to be thankful for.  You wanna know the answer I came up with?!  I will certainly never run out of things to be thankful for.  Every time I look around, I am reminded of every little thing I have to be thankful for, not to mention the biggest thing ever which is Jesus!  There is always something new!  So, what am I thankful for today?  Here's a story... it happened on Sunday, but today I was reminded of it and although it was a small thing, it still stuck out to me!

Sunday morning came around, I woke up and got ready for my day.  I decided that I was in need of coffee, so I got my bag and went out the door.  I was in a so so mood and was talking to God about living here and feeling sometimes like I don't know anyone!  There are SO many people here and although I am super close with the wonderful people we moved here with not to mention all the people at church, I still feel like I walk out the front door and I see no one that I know, which is a funny thing after living in Cayucos!  You practically walk out of your front door and see people you know!  Well, God decided to show me that there in fact are people I know!  People that need Him!  I walk in the front door of my favourite place and who do I see?  One of my favourites there!  She is such a sweetie!  And!  She was on break so we got to chat for 10 minutes {which happened just a couple days prior to that also}.  She was telling me that one of the other workers was telling her that she doesn't get enough iron and she was rushing out the door to go buy nuts!  I started laughing!  If you know me, you know my tummy issues!  I am always worried about not getting enough iron since I am not a red-meat eater.  So we chatted about food!  One of my other favourite conversations!  I was so thankful that conversation!  The other half of that conversation included the other workers because they were asking me where I was off to which happened to be church!  I love it!  After that, I was smiling so big and was saying wow God!  I do see people I know here!  But, that's not the end of it!  There is this other sweet girl that I just started to get to know at the corner bakery.  I don't get to go in there that often, but I had just gone in Monday because my wonderful hubs bought me something from there for my birthday breakfast.  As I turn out of my first favourite place there she is!  She was on her break and we had a quick chat.  She asked me about my man that I was in there with on Monday and thought he was only my bf.  I said, nope!  He is my hubby!  And we have been married for 3 1/2 years!  Get me started on him and our marriage and I could keep you all day with all of the wonderfulness that has been packed into these first 3 1/2 years!  I explained I was on my way church and had to leave and I was off on my way as she walked in the opposite direction.  I starting thinking that I was silly for my first thoughts of the day and committed to really surrender any thoughts that have no place in my head to the Lord as quickly as they come in, and also to really give Him the first thoughts of the day.  Even though this city is quite a bit larger than any city I have ever lived in, God still reminded me that He first and foremost is the love of my life, second my husband which I love even more today than I did that day I walked down the isle, and then He is blessing me with wonderful people that I live with and moved here with, people in our church, and these beautiful new faces that I am so thankful for today!

~Trista