Most high Father,
I humbly come before you with a pure heart and praise on my lips.
You alone are holy. Father, I thank you.
I thank you for those thing that hurt me so much I thought I could not take another breath. Because of those things I am stronger, more humble, more understanding, more compassionate, able to forgive and able to love deeper.
I thank you for those times you let me make my own mistakes and didn't save me instantly but let me learn the lessons of life. I thank you because every time I did learn a lesson, you were there to confirm that I was still you child no matter what.
I thank you for each tear that I have cried because without them I would not know that your grace is sufficient.
Thank you for the people you chose to surround me with, that they are all gifted and love me in ways that I need and have grown from.
I thank you that I am forgiven and that Jesus is real and alive in me.
I don't know how to say thank you with words, I don't think there are words enough recorded in all of history to tell you but, I lay my heart before you open and bare for you to search and know that you own this child, I am yours, all of me. Without you and your ways I would be forever lost, let me not ever forget the darkness you snached me from. May I be a light in someone else's path to you as you provided for me.

Driving today I was enjoying the beauty of the world around me and I remembered that the streams of sunlight that bound out from the clouds are my reminder of how mighty you are. Those streams are one of the first ways my children began to know who you are... We would talk about how after the storms God was faithful to give us a showing of his power to overcome by shining through and burning through the grey to shine out the silver lining. I didn't realize it but what a way to see God's glory and pass it on to little minds then in the power of who God is. Thank you God that I can know, that I can see, that I can proclaim and that I can teach my children just who is the sustainer of all things and how to call on Him... May you be glorified in the life of this child and may I be wiling to go and do every time you call me.

In the highest adoration and love of Jesus, Amen