Best Decisions

A friend of mine gave me this book of lists for Christmas. There's 52 lists so I've tried to do one a week. After Mark passed I let a couple weeks go by without doing my lists. It's not that I'm not thankful or joyful, I've just been super busy with it all. Anyway, today was a good day so I picked up the book and this week's list is: List the best decisions you have made in your life thus far. That's a loaded question, or prompt, for such a light-hearted and fun book but here it goes (and remember this is a list so I'm keeping the explanations to a minimum).

Starting from the beginning...
1. Making the choice to quit being a heathen child and take high school seriously so I could get into college.
2. Going to college
3. I suppose my first marriage was a good choice because it taught me a lot.
4. Having Bub!!
5. Continuing to go to college full time as a nontraditional student even though I was working full time, had a husband, a house, and an infant. I never quit.
6. Leaning into God during my difficulties and waiting for His guidance when I'm faced with decisions.
7. Getting a divorce. No one wants one but in my case it was for the best. We're still good friends, we just weren't good together.
8. Going into teaching special ed. I love my kids!
9. Marrying Mark!
10. Moving to Fort Worth
11. Going back to grad school & getting my Master's
12. Finding TCAL (our church in Arlington)
13. Getting baptized
14. Making things work with Mark despite the challenges. Loving unconditionally and forgiving freely.
15. Moving back home for the kids.
16. Going into private therapy full time at CTBS (my company)
17. Getting my BCBA certification.
18. Leaning into God and finding joy in my grief.
19. Honoring my husband with my words and actions.
20. Choosing to forgive as I've been forgiven (though that's a battle sometimes. The struggle is real).