Happy Late Thanksgiving!

Sunrise from our apartment window - Beautiful!

I know I am late but I couldn’t let Thanksgiving week pass without sharing some of the many things I am thankful for this year.  This Thanksgiving was different in many ways.  While I have been away from my family on Thanksgiving before – it has not been since I was a kid in France that Thanksgiving has been a normal working day.  It is a strange feeling.  Nevertheless I am thankful to be in Germany this Thanksgiving.  Something that I found hard to imagine this time last year.

-          I am thankful for the chance to celebrate Thanksgiving with some other teachers on Thanksgiving evening.  And then again yesterday evening.

-          I am thankful for the beautiful snow and the winter wonderland that we woke up to the day after Thanksgiving.

-          I am thankful for the country of Germany and all of its beauty

-          I am thankful for BFA and for the privilege of working here

-          I am thankful for the new friends that Jesus has brought into my life and some old friends that I have enjoyed living around the corner from. 

-          I am thankful for my roommates and our beautiful apartment right in the middle of Kandern

-          I am thankful for fellow teachers who are helping me in this new venture

Field Trip to Colmar, France with my French 2 class

-          I am thankful for my students

-          I am thankful for the chance to serve these students and their families

-          I am thankful for the opportunity to learn so much in the last few months

-          I am thankful for long hours and a demanding schedule that force me to depend on Jesus not just day to day but moment to moment

-          I am thankful for amazing friends and supporters who make it not only possible for me to be here but whose prayers and love I sense as I have stepped into this new role and phase of life.

-          I am thankful for a Savior that loves me unconditionally and never wearies of my daily petitions for his help and strength

-          I am thankful for a God who loves me so much that He was willing to send His son so that I might know the joy that comes from living in fellowship with Him and loving Him whole-heartedly.

With a thankful heart,

Anna