I am blessed.

It's Saturday night, I'm standing in a crowded room surrounding by hearts and voices being lift up. Heartache, joy, tears, love, lust, pain - all emotions running through the people in this room. You can feel and hear the emotion as everyone in unison are singing praises, being in the moment. I can't know what's in everyones heart, but I know what's in mine. As I stand there and sing "great is your faithfulness", I can't help but think that I am blessed. I could stand there and have a pity party on myself and recount all the ways I believe my life isn't going the way I want it, but then I think about the day i just had. My life is beyond blessed.

The day:

-Wake up to horses outside our house.

-Run in a 5K road race, been years since that's been able to happen.

-Kelli runs in her first EVER 5K road race.

-Wintson is with us.

-Kelli wins 10 coupons for water fitness classes!

-Drive to Portland listening to Shane & Shane

-Winston's asleep.

-Coach the most fantastic kids I could ever, ever ask for.

-Sheldon high school rules the day and every one of them has an incredible race! Nothing makes me more happy than when I get to see them happy and accomplish what they wanted.

-Pouring rain!!

-So much love poured out at the meet with my high schoolers.

-Find Winston and Kelli and drive to Kelli's dad's Pawn Shop. Get the tour.

-Go to lunch with Ty Williams! It's been years since I got to hang out with him.

-Go to Kelli's parents house, get the blue tour.

-Drive to Camp Tadpole for the CCF retreat.

-Winton's asleep

-Get lost a couple time.

-Hear Winston's life story

-Arrive at Camp Tadmor

-Stand in a circle of three, plus some here and there and laugh til my sides hurt.

-Break yourself!

-Talk to a nervous, God-filled roommate ready to pour her heart out.

-See the influence and inspiration in the peers around me.

And here I am, standing, finally understanding how blessed I am. How many little things in my life make the big picture of beautiful. How everything around me can be temperamental and changing, but when I completely stop, I can completely see. I let the sounds of the song fill me, I let the lyrics consume me, and I sing with the biggest smile on my face because I know that I have been uncountably blessed and there's no greater feeling.

The night continues:

-Julie stands up and bares her soul and her heart and touches my mine and I can only imagine so many others. So proud.

-Eat pie.

-Pit-digs

-Consume myself with people who change me inside and out.

-Drive home

-Winston's asleep, and Kelli joins.

-Recount the day and rejoice always.

It was a good day.