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A friend of mine posted a blog recently with 100 things she is thankful for as this Thanksgiving season is upon us and I was inspired to do the same thing. So here they are, in no particular order! 1. My Lord...His faithfulness, love, and mercies that are new each morning. 2. My dad 3. My teaching job at Trinity 4. Ryan for inspiring this blog and inspiring me every day in general 5. My beautiful 3-legged dog Maggie 6. My new house :-) 7. Sunshine 8. Raspberry Chai 9. My friend Susan who introduced me to raspberry chai and for the awesome friend she is 10. Christopher - my 13 year old cat who is pretty almost blind but still so loving and cuddly 11. My best friend Amy Katherine Paredes 12. Heat in the winter 13. Sugar cookies with no frosting 14. My class parakeet Happy 15. My church family 16. My Grandma Judy who has taught me so much by the way she lives her life 17. The random hugs throughout the week from one of my second graders - Jesse 18. Calli - my calico kitty 19. My pastor Jo...

   I tried to talk…to speak the words of the pain I was feeling the pain that cuts like a knife the pain that is so intense that I can’t breathe the pain that comes and goes hurting so very much when it comes I spoke the words…I told them how I felt but it fell on deaf ears every word ignored… no one paid attention I was looking for comfort for someone to understand to console me and let me cry… instead came words of a different comfort a comfort I wasn’t looking for I didn’t need to hear those words… that everything was going to be okay that the world wasn’t going to end that we would make it I would make it I needed someone to hold me to hear what I had to say what I needed to say So I picked up the knife felt the rough texture of the handle looked at the blade the little grooves and I drug it across my skin my eye on the tip of the knife as I made a mark it got longer and longer and longer all the while feeling no pain couldn’t feel the knife tearing across my skin The pain was gone...