2021: 50 Reasons To Be Thankful!

While busyness and distractions can entangle us, we can choose to be joyful and respond with thanksgiving.

"Always be joyful. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus."                                                                    1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

So here goes my list of random and eventful things that I am thankful for the past 2021.

1. Singapore's convenient and efficient vaccination drive

2. Protection from Covid-19

3. Less shopping this year

4. Sunsets 🌇

5. Swimming lessons with Gwen and Mich

6. New restaurants we get to try this year

7. Convenient place near MRT

8. Holidays 

9. Weekends

10. Picolaser sessions

11. Rejuran healer sessions

12. Birthdays we get to celebrate in person or online

13. Cruise to nowhere experience

14. Unlimited food on the cruise

15. Negative PCRs requirement for the cruise

16. Provision, safety, and protection during the 3-day cruise

17. Being able to donate blood in Red Cross Singapore for the first time!

18. Being able to distribute gospel tracts 

19. Convenience of work from home setup

20. Stable company

21. Performance bonus

22. Salary increase

23. Employee Stock Purchase Plan option

24. Visa Restricted Stocks Units 

25. Passing APMG Scrum Master certification

26. New dishes I get to try cooking this year

27. IPL sessions and less hair with Braun

28. Discovering Panoxyl and Retinols

29. Lunch and dinner dine-in I get to spend with my friends

30. Privilege to join and complete CCF Prayer and Fasting - January and July

31. Dgroup Fridays

32. Badminton Saturdays

33. Family devotion Sundays

34. Consistent walking sessions

35. Safe neighborhood for night walks

36. 1:1 sessions with my niece Aizelle studying Purpose Driven Life

37. 1:1 sessions with Joan studying GLC Book 2 and The Right Kind of Strong by Mary Kassian

38. 1:1 sessions with Laiza and Marie

39. Intermittent Fasting discipline and its benefits

40. Completing my 40km @40 challenge

41. Opportunity to donate to CCF Elevate on my birthday and to CCF Tulong Tayo and Philippine Red Cross via Visa 2:1 donation match for the casualties of Odette

42. Home workouts

43. New Macbook pro 15" work laptop

44. Nights I get to sleep more than 7 hours

45. Days I get to exercise

46. Good health for me and my family

47. Protection for my family in the Philippines

48. Gemson's work in MS Europa 2

49. Dgroup and church family here in Singapore

50. Answered prayers!!!

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