gratitude, example #1

so i really should be either sleeping or studying, but i just had to (or wanted to) write some things down. 


i am so incredibly grateful. how does the Lord know? he is so aware of us and there are so many evidences of his love in my life. 


example #1. i used to think i knew a lot about love/had a lot of love/showed a lot of love, not that i don't think that anymore, but the emphasis i guess recently is i've been realizing how much love i see in the people around me. i am grateful for their examples that show me in so many different and unique ways what love is. so i'm not a sugar eater, as most people know, but lately i've been having this sweet tooth.. perhaps it is bc our grades came out and i dont know other stresses that have just been building up i guess. and my neighbor and visiting teacher just happens to be a wonderful baker and when she came over on sunday she said she had made cinnamon rolls. ooo i love cinnamon rolls. and she had one left. i wanted to eat one (i had actually just went to kneaders last week and gotten one and it was SO good), but i decided to resist. well today, oh boy i wanted a cinnamon roll. so i get home and walk next door (well actually i dont even have to walk bc they are literally ONE step away), and i knock and ask if brianna is home. she's not home. and then i ask her roommate katy if she knows if there are any cinnamon rolls left.. nope. darn. well that's ok. it was probably better that i don't eat them anyway!


so i go and i exercise and i try to work on a few things, and then i come home and guess what i see on the kitchen table. a plate of cinnamon rolls. 


i just felt so much love. brianna, who i KNOW is busy herself, heard from her roommate that i came over asking for cinnamon rolls, and so she made some for me. though i am def grateful for the yummy cinnamon rolls i will be partaking of soon, the even more meaningful part to me is her love and what i am able to learn through her example of love to me.