Thankful and grateful

I’m thankful for my wife, Janet, especially because in the past 12 years, she could have died twice – once from Crohn’s disease complications and once from having her lungs filled with blood clots due to a cancerous tumor on her vena cava above her liver. So, I am deeply grateful that God chose to leave her with me. With this in mind, I said to her the other day, “With every passing year in our marriage, I want to grow sweeter, more loving, more patient, and more servant-like.” That’s really the desire of my heart, but I know, all too well, that I can’t accomplish this by my own moral resolve. That’s why I am desperate for God’s grace and cry out for it every day.