Earlier this week, I posted a couple family pictures to my social media and added this caption.

I thank God every day for them. This sweet little spot, these beautiful people, this extraordinary life . . . what an incredible gift.I am just so overwhelmingly grateful.

God has been so good to me.

I know He is good all the time, no matter what. I know I would still be able to say He is good even if sickness or poverty or death were given to us instead of this beautiful life. I don’t even like to think about that, and I won’t say I don’t fear it, but right now, right here, in these moments, there is so much beauty.

I have three healthy, bright, adorable boys. I have a very handsome, very hard-working, very charming, very wonderful husband. I have my own health, physically and mentally. We have a sweet little house on our own little spot of Oregon. Our business hasn’t hurt for work pretty much ever. Our home hasn’t held much of any strife or illness.

We are so blessed, and I don’t want to take any of it for granted.

I know there are many ways to be blessed, and many situations and circumstances in which we can still say God is good. Be it in pain or sickness or death or disappointment, God is still present, and God is still working, and God is still good.

I know that seasons come and go, that circumstances change. I know we will not always be in this settled, vibrant space of our children being small, of our entire world revolving within these four walls. I know that good things come to an end, even just from one good thing replacing another good thing.

I know that sickness comes unexpectedly. Death steals silently. Tragedy is something I dread when I think of it, and something I place tremblingly in the hand of God.

But we are not there.

We are here.

And while we are here, in peace and safety and comfort, with our children always with us, I just want to acknowledge again what a gift we have been given.

So let these words be a part of my thank-you to the One from whom all blessings flow . . . to the Father of lights from whom every good and perfect gift comes.

His gifts are beautiful.

To God be the glory.