Post message update: Truth is you dont know how good you have it until its gone. In order to achieve wanting only the things and people that you have you need to look into the positive things you gain from having these people or things around you. The things you take for granted are the things others are praying for. When you make yourself aware of how blessed you really are, that is when you learn to appreciate the “little” things in life. As most of you know my family has lost everything in a fire. Instead of feeling down and sorry for ourselves we came together as a family working together just to make it through another day and get by. Instead of looking it as a loss, to us its a gain. We still have each other. And we couldnt ask for much more then that. Every day its a challenge and its not as easy as it looks or sounds. We have jumped around 3 different places and still managed to keep a positive attitude no matter what. Iyde is always smiling and things every place we go is just as good as the last. We are happy to have food in our mouths, shelter to stay in and clothes on our backs. You wont hear us complain. I want to take the time out to thank the people who have made a difference in our lives. To those who reached our or lend a helping hand. To those who went out of their way just to see if were OK. To any one who sent a simple gesture our way. No matter how big or small it was a little goes along way. There are people who have it worse then us or are going through something too. I will always go out of my way to make sure theyre ok. If you see someone down lift them up. If you see someone sad send a smile their way. There are 24 hours in a day we all have the same hours it takes a second of your time to let someone know you crossed their mind or they are a thought in your prayers. You dont know the impact you have on a person. Just know any of those things will make anyones day and and even for you. It might not be much but its something. If its one thing I learned through out this hardship is Life is too short to waste our time thinking about what we do not have. We obviously can survive without them, we have made it this far. Things do not make us happy, it is how we feel within ourselves that really matters. What you get out of life depends entirely upon your attitude. The things that truly provide happiness are usually right in front of us. What we need to do it continuously remind ourselves where we’d be without them. I hope this can reach someone who needs it more then we do
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:13:00 +0000