Hey this is still here. Thats awesome. Clearly it has been a while. A long long while since I have written anything. On the blog of course. I have written many pieces. In my head. Where they start and never seem to finish. Today I thought I would try and reverse that trend. So here it goes.
Last week was my birthday. Yay. Not a particularly great day for a lot of reasons but the biggest were that I had a sinus infection (yeah I can't even make it a month into the new year without one) and we had just gotten back from Disney. So I was not in the best of moods anyway. So yesterday we did more of a celebration for my birthday. It was nice. I was given a gift by a dear sweet thoughtful friend that was left on my porch. It is a daily gratitude journal. This meant so much to me because I had been thinking of how grateful I am. Truly. She gave me a place to sort of document it. I had been thinking how I had not a great birthday but it was just a somewhat bad day. Not a bad life. We all have those sometimes. Next a remember what happened 2 years ago thing popped up on Facebook. It was about my mom and when she was in the hospital 3 years ago. Again so grateful she is alive and healing each and every day. I think of how grateful I am that our lives are so different from then and how hard that was. On all of us. She had so much go so wrong in such a short period of time. I was and still am surrounded by the most amazing people in my life. I have been asked how I made it through those difficult times. The truth is I didn't. God carried me through that 1000%. I remember just collapsing in the shower so overcome with helplessness, thinking that I could not even stand up. HE carried me. I am so grateful and thankful and overwhelmed by that. I think of how grateful I am for my life. I mean that with every beat of my heart and breath I take. 10-12 years ago if you had told me where I would be and what I would be doing, I just would have laughed and wondered what was wrong with you. This life I have is wonderful and amazing and I would not trade it for anything. I dont take it for granted because I remember what was before. I know that it can also be gone at any moment. I think of all the things that have changed. I am grateful. I know no of us are perfect but we are sure perfect for each other. I am thankful for my friend who gave me such a wonderful gift and probably had no idea how it would touch me. Now I have a beautifully bound book to write in. Each day. And remember that with each day I have something to be grateful for. Even if it is a bad day. It is not a bad life. Someone may need to hear that today. I am glad. I am grateful. And now I am out of time...
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