an eye opening experience

I awoke at 9:30 to the sun sneaking through my blinds, causing my eyes to open slowly and adjust to my room and a new day. I am often thankful these days for all the blessings, gifts, and comforts that God has and continues to give me. Not that I haven't always been thankful, but I see days, activities, friends, and family with a new set of eyes. Knowing that my days in Dallas are numbered, counting down to the biggest move I will have made so far, I want to soak up every moment and capture each hour as though I could play it back like the T.V. show 24. This is of course without any violence. As in this morning, I was taking in every feeling of the comfort of my bed while looking beyond my bedroom into the space I currently have in my 900 sq. ft. apt. that I live in alone. I will be sharing, for the second time in my life, a generous 300 sq. ft. apartment - this time in Africa. The first time being in NYC where my roommate and I had a medium sized fridge, a small stove, sink, cabinets, a well running toilet, and a tub/shower. It is humorous to look back on the first time I saw what little I had in the way of an apt. Now to look at what my new home in Africa will be like, I know there will be days that I long for what I had in NYC. Just this living situation shows me what a humorous God we have. How He constructs our life experiences to prepare us for the future comforts me and helps me to walk in faith for He does have complete control. (In a few weeks I will post a picture of my room in Africa to have as a comparison to the above picture which is part of my apt. in Dallas.)