Thanksgiving

I just had to write a few quick thoughts about being with my extended family for Thanksgiving and share a few of te blessings that I have and am thankful for.

I have been so deeply blessed with a family. I understand that there are those who have not been raised in a loving home and this makes me truely sad. My family helps me to feel the love of God for me. If my parents, Aunts, Uncles, Grandmother and Grandfather can love me as much as they do then I think that God's love for us will burn so much brighter even than theirs.

I am thankful for my family. I am thankful that despite my never ending weaknesses and shortsightedness God still has a profound place for me and all his other children in his heart. I realize as Nephi did in the book of Mormon that I don't know the meaning of all things, or anything for that matter, but I do know that God loves his children. When I feel hopeless and lost I remember that I know he loves his children and I can't be as lost or hopeless as I think I am.