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Happy 28th Birthday to me!!

Here is a "vintage" birthday pic from my 25th birthday in 2009.  Still one of my favorites. :)

God is so good...

The past year has been full of changes, difficulties, growth, and great blessings!!

I feel confident right now that I am in God's will and on the path toward becoming the woman He created me to be... I couldn't say that at this time last year, so I am extremely thankful for that!

I missed Thankful Thursday, so I'll take a minute to be grateful here today...

I am thankful that, as of yesterday, I am COMPLETELY CAUGHT UP at work for the first time in 2012!  Awesome feeling.

I am thankful that I am now (as of yesterday, again) OFFICIALLY ENROLLED to begin school at SNU on Monday!!!  All of my 70 hours transferred - praise the Lord! - and the 6 "Life Learning Papers" that I'll have to write to make up the other 18 credits are going to be much more simple than I originally thought.  I had to laugh when I heard the topics...

I'll be writing on My Journey to Faith, Health and Nutrition, Volunteering Experience, American Cinema, A Fiction Book series, etc.  Awesome!

I'm thankful that I get to CELEBRATE tonight with some of my favorite people on earth!

I'm so very thankful that baby ANTHONY has survived his first day against all odds ...tonight at 7:30 will be 48 hours since he was born, and the doctors say if he makes it to that point, it's a great sign.  Be praying that God will continue to have mercy on them and show His grace and power!

I'm thankful for my Kindle, and that I get to spend the rest of my morning READING after this post.  I'm reading Little Women for the first time, and it's actually quite funny and far better than I expected!

I'm thankful for conviction, humility, and REPENTANCE.

I'm thankful for all the many blessings in my life,

and above all else, I'm thankful for GOD'S LOVE!

"Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. For I am persuaded beyond doubt that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!"

~Romans 8:37-39