just thank you...

I’m working on saying thank you.

And by that I mean, saying simply thank you. Just thank you.

Like when, in what seems like your (ya’ll’s, general “you”s) communal effort/conspiracy to fatten me up, you buy me a nice dinner.

Or when you compliment my writing.

Or say going to Sudan was great and God really used me there.

All these things, I’m ready to argue with right away. Put up a fight against them. Squirm.

But now I’m working on simply saying thank you.

So if I seem like I’m in pain or exceedingly uncomfortable, you know why.

I’m just working on my just saying thank you.