Choosing Thankfulness

I was reading a book the other day. Not a serious, let's grow and learn book, but a light-hearted, let's escape from craziness and laundry kind of book. The author (Lori Wick) weaves biblical messages into the fiction she writes. Anyway, one of the things in this book was the phrase "choosing thankfulness." In several situations that were trying, scary, or downright depressing, the characters were choosing to be thankful and recognizing the sovereignty of God. This really jumped out at me for some reason. How apt am I to give God praise for planning things out and ordering my life, especially when I am not really comfortable with a particular choice He makes. If He is God at all, then He must be God OF all. So, I determined to choose thankfulness everyday no matter what.
I shouldn't have mentioned this to anyone, not even myself.
In school, I always liked tests... in life, not so much...
Friday, my laptop died. Yup! Dead as a doornail (whatever that means). So, here's the really cool part. God was completely and totally bringing good out of this before it even happened, Mike decided to speed up my computer for my birthday present. He bought extra memory and wanted to get rid of all the stuff I don't ever use. My instructions were to back every single thing I would ever need onto my external hard drive. God is so good! When my computer died, I lost none of my writing, scrapbook pages, digital scrapping supplies, documents, NOTHING whatsoever! Also, within 24 hours, Mike had our desktop computer set up upstairs and running beautifully. I am so thankful God is taking care of through the wonderful man to whom I am married.