Birthday Eve Prayer of Thanks

Dear God, thank you for another trip around the sun.
Thank you for highlighting the magic in my life.
Dear God, thank you for allowing me to become part of this loving community that I have found in the Takoma Park Chapel.
Thank you for bringing people into my life who are willing and able to remind me of and show me my worth.
I thank you God for bringing me to a place where I am encouraged to use my voice, where I am assured that I have valuable things to offer.
I am truly blessed to be surrounded by people who are finding surprising ways to lift me up, to empower me, and who are teaching me to fly.
Their generosity fills my heart with so much joy, for I never knew these blessings were coming, I didn't know I deserved them.
Their compliments, their assurances, and their loving sentiments are beginning to replace the bully that lived in my head all these years.
Dear God, thank you for carrying me to this precious moment.
There was a time when I could not have imagined such a gift as this; a place where I could discover my inner magic, a place where I could truly know belonging.
There was a time when I thought that I did not belong anywhere, but now I have been shown the truth.
Thank you God for all of the blessings in my life.
Thank you for the gift of the trail, thank you for the gift of vagabonding in Europe and thank you for the upcoming gift of vagabonding through the states.
Dear God, your blessings truly know no bounds and I give thanks.