Thankfulnessgiving

So, of course today is Thanksgiving, and while I am generally lacking in the complete spirit of the occasion presently (perhaps directly related to the fact that I have to work today)... I thought I should probably write a little something about the really BIG blessings that God has poured into my life in the last year.
1. My job... Now, technically I had my job before last Thanksgiving... but I don't know if I completely appreciated it, or really understood what God wanted to teach me through it. And let me tell you, He's got lessons in EVERYTHING! Its usually only a matter of finding what they are! Also He has been so good in preserving my job for me, and even raising me up in it, even when I thought I was going to lose my job.
2. My friends... God has really poured some amazing friends into my life here recently. Tons of amazing girl and guy friends who are there to build me up in the Lord and lift me up to Him in prayer... and, what a blessing, I get to do the exact same in their lives!! Man, I never knew the fellowship of the saints could be this sweet! But I fall in love with what God wants to do in our lives and "body" every time that I talk to them!
3. My calling... Now this one is kinda sticky... but I'm going to list it all the same. See God called me to Africa last summer, but while I was there, He just kept opening and opening my heart to the place. So now I have this completely amazing and far-out calling to somewhere far away... and let me tell you it is the most amazingly freeing feeling that exists out there...
4. My relationship with God... Okay, yes, this one sounds all spiritual and what-not but really God has been growing me... and the way that He does that most effectively is by breaking me first! So yeah, this last year has been full of breaking... but the mending is so sweet that one hardly minds the cracking...
Well, that is most of my list for now... not to the exclusion of some other really big things in my life, just a small smattering of my thankfulness from this last year!