A new thanksgiving prayer

This year, Thanksgiving feels different. I’ve been so blessed to be able to travel to different parts of the world this year and hear the stories of people from all walks of life. I was able to listen to the stories from refugee families in Iraq who invited me in their homes to share their hearts and losses. I got to play with kids in refugee camps who had lost their parents, families, and homes. I was privileged to spend time with my friends, and now family, in Egypt who passionately the Lord, who share Jesus relentlessly, and are an example of the Church being Christ’s hands and feet, even though they live somewhere where it costs them everything. I’m thankful for new things I never thought to be thankful for. I’m thankful for clean cold water. I’m thankful for a warm home and a healthy family. I’m thankful to live in a place in the world where I’m overwhelmingly privileged, where anyone can be anything. I’m thankful for a global family of people from all over the world who have taught me things I never could have learned without them. I’m thankful for clothes and food and shoes to wear, and a million things that God has transformed my heart to appreciate. My prayer this coming year is to remember that privilege is something that not many people in our world have, and that God gave it to me to use on behalf of others. I pray that I will have a heart like Jesus to love the broken and serve them like He did. ❤️