Exhausted, Nervous, and Excited...Day 15 of Gratefulness

Since I'm literally running on maybe 2 hrs of sleep in the last 48+ hours, this is gonna be short.  Today was another work day in the classroom with some training and then Open House until 7pm tonight.  It went well, it was fun meeting my soon to be students and their parents.  Tomorrow is the BIG day - my 1st day as a 4th Grade English teacher!!! So thankful and blessed.

Thankful for an awesome podcast that my sweet friend Katie told me about as I was walking out the door this morning.  I had mentioned the whole start of me writing 60 days of thankfulness derived a lot from the book 1,000 Gifts by Ann Voscamp; well she did an interview about this book with LIfe Today and I really cant put into words how amazing she was.  To read about her experiences of finding joy is one thing but to hear her tell it, and here the JOY in her voice now after finding it was just what I needed to hear this morning on my way to school.  I don't remember word for word of what she said but basically, we find JOY by being in the presence of God, we are in the presence of God by being thankful.  Such a simple line, but so rich and true. So that is what my blog of 60 days is all about, finding that JOY by being in the presence of God by being thankful.

There is a verse in the Bible that says just that but of course I can't find it, when I do I'll post it.

JOY - presence of God by being thankful.

If this doesn't scream JOY- then I don't know what does :)