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Since I started participating in Thankful Thursday, I have been posting a list of thankfuls for the previous week.  This time I'm going to do something a little different.

This week I am thankful for a major "light bulb" moment.  Not a "head knowledge" light bulb moment, but instead a light bulb moment of the heart.  You see, I've known and believed in my head for a long time that everything is in the Lord's hands and He is in control.  But did my heart really feel that?  Sadly, no.  Out of nowhere it hit me a few days ago.  I was crying out to Him about a situation in my life that has gone on for years and all of a sudden ... BAM! ... I finally felt it in my heart.  I can't change the situation.  I can't make it right or even how *I* want it to be.  It's all in His hands and in His time.  And now I know that I can feel that in my heart about everything that happens in my life, whether it's just to me personally or something that affects my family as a whole.  Will I still feel sad, discouraged, hurt, fearful, and so on?  Yes, and I know that's okay.  I am human and have God-given emotions.  Feeling all those things is perfectly normal ... allowing myself to dwell on those emotions and not cast my cares is not.