I feel like that guy that just won the Oscar for Best Actor reading the obligatory list of people to thank. I didn’t win an Oscar, but I do have some people to thank:

1) Thanks to all of you who keep reading my blog. I know you may not read every single one, but the fact that you read any at all is an honor. I am blessed to have you as readers.

2) Thanks to Kairos for being a big part of the transformation that God has been working in me the last 2 or 3 years. Especially, thanks to the greeter team for keeping me around and still letting me volunteer.

3) Thanks to all my facebook friends. You’ve stuck with me through some awkward (and some really dumb) posts. You’ve let me rant at times and throw my self-pity parties and haven’t defriended (or is it unfriended? I’m shaky on my proper facebook terminology) me yet.

4) Thanks to my family. You guys rock.

5) Thanks to Sweet CeCe’s for occasionally having Red Velvet, though not as often as I would like.

6) Thanks to Starbucks for the many drinks I have tried there, and especially for the organic chocolate milk that I had Thursday. It was pretty close to supernatural.

7) Thanks to Mike Glenn, Lloyd Shadrach, Michael Easley, Bill Wellons, Pete Wilson, Aaron Bryant, and Bryan Ball for some really good teaching and biblical application. All of you know how to rightly divide the Word of God. Plus, thanks to the multitude of writers that have helped change the way I see God, myself, and my world.

8) Thanks to God for Jesus. Because of Him, I’m alive and not the worst sort of criminal or pervert or louse I could be. Because of Him, I am something new.

9) Thanks to God also for the Holy Spirit who constantly reminds me of all the good things I know but sometimes forget and for also reminding me that who I am is not a sinner, but a son adopted by God and made righteous by Jesus and pleasing to both.

10) Last, but only because I didn’t think of it until now, thanks to wordpress for putting my blog out there for the world to see. Ok, for 20 people to see. But hopefully God uses what I’ve said to make a world of difference to somebody somewhere out there.