So Early, but I'm Thankful!

I'm up early today. I got up, felt the air crack between my joints, pulled the covers back and was greeted with a gust of chilled air. The apartment is quiet, all except the steady silent roar of the water sprinklers. It sounded like those old WB cartoons when the dog would open a jar to hear applause from the fleas in his circus. I'm going to drive to work soon, listening to the radio, as I do, as I'm heading there. I'm going to hear more bad news...jobs lost, the economy worsens, inflated health care costs, billions of dollars to be allocated to businesses so they can cut jobs, collapsing banking infrastructures, sub prime mortgage crisis, fraudulent cases against security managers...all stuff to feel hopeless. I won't feel that way though. A couple of weeks ago I watched the football game, the Super Bowl, at a friends house. Prior to our leaving, his mother had us all stand in a circle. Before she prayed for God's blessing over our lives she said that despite the economic woes of the country, she remains optimistic and hopeful because her God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, that, in a time of famine, you still will be blessed with what it is you need. There was a time when I would not have ardently supported that claim, but today is different. I am going to drive to work soon, and that is reason enough to be thankful! It was not long ago when I woke up without a place to go.