All too often we get to self absorbed and wrapped up in our own woes and misfortunes that we forget to recognize the goodness and blessings we do have in our lives no matter how small they are. Just in the last week I have witnessed my niece learn one day the her husband was diagnosed with the H1N1 virus while out on the road and many states away (hes a truck driver) to a day or 2 later get word that he had been life flighted and was being asked for consent to put him on a ventilator over the phone. He is still on life support but is making progress a small bit at a time. I learned that another guy whom I had met thru being a customer at the bar received a knock on his door in the middle of the night & upon answering the door he was shot in the back and his family is being told he will be paralyzed as his spinal cord was severed... he is a young man with young children of his own and has a lot of yrs ahead of him. since when did it become ok for one human being to blatantly decide it is their duty to purposely alter the path of another persons life with that type of violence? And then tonight at work I watched a young man having a good time with his friends receive a phone call to learn that his family home was on fire and it looks as if the home is a complete loss but thankfully all family members got out safely. So as I think about those events my woes and misfortunes seem minute and I am forced to think about the blessings in my life. I have my health and my children are healthy, I have a place to lay my head at night, I have my family even tho we are spread far and wide, and I have some great friends in my life who have brought color to my world. I am blessed in ways that we often forget to think about. So now I am going to try to consciously remind myself daily to be thankful for the little things and to focus on the big picture.... I still have a lot of living to do and I am going to make the best of it.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:13:13 +0000
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