Thank you for waking me up this morning, and blessing me with this day.  Thank you for protecting me at night, and for watching over me.  Thank you for everything you have given to me: my house, my parents, my friends, running, singing, dancing, my room, my laptop, everything.  It is all truly a blessing, and I don’t take any of it for granted.  Thank you, Lord, for giving me 17 whole years of life, about to be 18 years.  God, I know that I look like an ungrateful, stubborn, and self-centered girl sometimes.  I just want you to know that in my heart I truly am thankful for everything you’ve given me.  I just ask that you will keep me strong right now.  Keep me happy, or just at least help me to be.  But overall, thank you because you are the only person in the whole world that I can trust will be there for me throughout everything.