Today, October 4^th was my birthday.  I woke up about 4:30 this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep, I just tossed and turned and was irritated at the fact that I should be sleeping.  Around 6:30 I heard sirens going past our house.  It was time for me to get up any way so I jumped in the shower ready to start the day.  I was a little stressed over a teacher’s meeting at church.  I wanted it to go good and not waste people’s time that were coming out early to a meeting on Sunday morning.  I got a call that the sirens were actually going to a family that we knew.  A couple in our church lost their home to fire this morning.  Praise God everyone was out of the house, and they had insurance, but still it was devastating.  Life is like that; in an instant, things can change.  I had been reading over the chapter in One Month to Live and today it talked about savoring special moments in our lives and being thankful for those moments.  Yesterday I was working on getting things ready for church Sunday and I was rushing through my to do list when it hit me, “This is so cool that I get to do this stuff!”  I thought about what a privilege it is to get to serve God.  We talked about it in our teacher’s meeting this morning.  We talked about stopping and savoring the moments we have with these children every Sunday.  We talked about stopping to take the time to look into their eyes and see how they are taking all of life in and how cool it is that we get to pour into their lives each week.  Wouldn’t it be awful to want to do things to serve and not be able to?  But yet, week after week we have the opportunity and we look at it as a duty or an obligation and sometimes we go through the motions, instead of giving it our all and enjoying it.  Gratitude has a lot to do with attitude.  Today I am so thankful for the obvious things, my family, my health, my salvation and the love that I have from my family and friends, but I am also thankful for the people who come along side us every week and bless us in so many ways.  Tomorrow, things could change, we never know when a sickness, a fire or some other tragedy could change everything.  Today I got to eat lunch with my mom, dad, brother, sister, Carl and Kayla, Christopher and Kenzie, and some great friends.  I got to run around all over the place with my husband, who is the love of my life.  And now I’m laying in bed with Kayla talking and typing, I am very blessed and very thankful and savoring this moment.