Thanksgiving Challenge #Day 1

Hello beautiful People, Happy weekend.
I hope we all enjoyed the long week. It's been a while I wrote on Steemit, I'm back to count my blessings, I was nominated by @jeline for this challenge.

Today, I am thankful for:

The Gift Of Life

I am grateful to God for the gift of life and for keeping me alive. Life gives us hope, that we will become better and that someday our dreams and aspirations will be realized. We are living in a world where we're not promised a time to die. And though death is a debt we must pay someday, yet we have to seize this moment and be grateful to the giver of life, which is God. Indeed, life is worth living!

M.Sc Admission at Nigeria's Premiere University

When I was a young boy in high school, it has always been my dream to have an educational experience and training at the First and Best University in Nigeria. If you're from Nigeria you'll know about the hype associated with schooling at UI (University of Ibadan), South West Nigeria, of the standard, the structures, the competition and the human resource manpower. Because of the high standard, reputation and so much hype associated with the school, it is often referred to by many as "The Nigerian Harvard". After my first degree program from another school, University of Uyo, I intended doing my M.Sc program at UI, only to be told about how difficult it is to get admitted there, about the competition and their high standard expectations and blah blah blah. I dislodged the fear this would've brought and went ahead with my application, wrote the exams, passed, got qualified for the next stage, Interview and essay writing. I equally passed the second stage as well. And out of 178 applicants of the same course I applied for, I was lucky to finally make it to the list of just 25 persons offered admission into the course. I'm so grateful to God for this admission. His grace saw me through and paid off my efforts. This is an indicator and reminder to the fact that with hardwork, consistency and perseverance we can become the best at what we do, and thread where even lions fear to thread.

Sound Health

I am grateful for sound health. The joy of being able to live without being handicapped by any form of ailment, disease or sickness. I am thankful for a functional body system and brain, systems, organs and cells.

Food and Clothing

I am naturally a foodie, hahaha. I love and enjoy good meals. I also like looking good, good dressing has a way of instilling confidence in many people. I think looking good is a good business indeed, lol. I am not taking it for granted that I can eat, I am aware that there are others who can only feed through pipes or with the assistance of others. I am also aware that others can only eat a few selected meals because of their health condition or other challenges. Others can even eat but do not have food, while others have food but cannot eat. Therefore, having food and being able to eat, is a miracle and I'm grateful for it.

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Steem and Steemit

Discovering Steemit and Steem is one of the best things that happened to me towards the end of last year and I'm grateful for it. The opportunities here are boundless, through Steemit I've been able to connect with wonderful minds as well as touch the lives of others and that of young school children. This is something I'm extremely grateful for.

Okay guys, let me stop here for today. Feel free to join and let us know what you're grateful for.
I hereby nominate @lordjames, @prettyjules158, @alisonudeme, @gracebassey, @etimbukndem to join this challenge.

@ponmile says we can use the #itestify tag, courtesy @seyiodus.