Celebration of God's Grace

Happy Thanksgiving to you! We hope you have an amazing time this Thanksgiving with family and friends, and we also hope you take a break from the eating, football watching, eating, and more eating to thank God for what He has done in your life this past year...because the food and football are great but gratitude is really what Thanksgiving is all about.

Here on our blog this Thanksgiving we're having a Celebration of God's Grace!

We invite you to read through our family's blessings from the past year, and then add a comment sharing how God has blessed your family. We can't think of a better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than by rejoicing over God's everyday grace in our lives!

Kinne Family Blessings 2010

• First and foremost, we are thankful that we have a relationship with the God of the universe! We have seen the Lord working in new places and new ways this year. What a mighty God we serve!
• Good health for all of us, but we are especially thankful for incredibly good health for Charlotte while living in Spain without much knowledge of medical terms in the Spanish language.
• We always have a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes on our backs - our needs are always met!
• Safety and adaptability while flying overseas multiple times with an infant.
• Provision of Christian community, especially in a foreign country where few people profess Christ.
• Safety for our family in the military who have served in the Middle East this past year AND extreme gratitude for their sacrifice to serve our country.
• Learning how to do without many of our comforts and conveniences in the United States.
• Friends in many countries who have helped us in our strange transient life this year - living in and taking care of our U.S. home, helping us with language and cultural barriers associated with finding housing, and many other small ways people have blessed us as we've been foreigners far away from home.
• We aren't who we were a year ago - our faith in God has grown through many changes in our life (moving overseas, having a new baby at home, Anne becoming a stay-at-home mom, and Brendan no longer working from home).
• God has given us a unique opportunity to see and learn more about the world He created.
• Charlotte Grace - our beautiful, sweet, happy 1 year-old daughter!
• Each other - our marriage is not perfect - far from it - but because of our relationship with Jesus, we turn to Him to lead us through the tough days (and weeks and months!)
• Each of you - we're grateful for the love each of you give us; you encourage and push us in our faith; our lives would not be same without you!
• Time to spend with our family, especially in the midst of a busy year. {Below are some pictures taken earlier this week with Anne's family in Texas.}

We would love to hear how God has been blessing you this year! At the bottom of this post you can leave a comment, or, if you like, you can leave the link to your own Thanksgiving celebration blog post. We hope you'll also read through comments left by others and rejoice together over what God is doing in our lives!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Kinne's!

*Family photos by Sinklier Studios in Abernathy, Texas.