I have a friend who has three boys. They’re grown now, but when they were younger, she described a time when she was trying to get all of her men to be able to share their feelings. After a few minutes, one of her boys piped up: “Well, I feel hungry.”

Don’t you wish there was an emoticon for everything we feel, even if we can’t describe it ourselves? I’ve been having fun with the new emoji keyboard I added to my iPhone, adding fun symbols to my texts and emails. This is what I think God’s emoticon would look like when He thinks of us:

😍

Thankful today for:

151. my brothers- and sisters-in-law

152. my nieces and nephews

153. new babies

154. upcoming weddings

155. the really, truly official start of baseball season

156. improvement in my injured elbow (don’t ask)