Gifts

This year I started out wondering how I would get through another year of the same old...

I came across a website about gratitude.  The address is www.aholyexperience.com and what I found led me to one thousand gifts.  In my season of life I really needed to be redirected.  I was all about me.  I was sad, lonely, and angry.  Was it because of not being loved.  NO.  I am loved, and blessed - I was missing it.  We will see what we expect.  I am changing from my self centered approach at life to seeing what I have been blessed with.  Once we start looking at life through those eyes of gratitude we find something truly amazing.
I have an amazing husband who also happens to be my best friend.  I don't always see him like that.  When I am struggling, he can actually become the face of all the bad things in my life - the face to everything that is wrong.  And then he gets the brunt of my frustration.  Other times that will be my kids.  Until now...

They are gifts in my life and that is how I MUST view them.  My life is what I make it to be.  If I focus on the negative, then the rest of that day is going to be a struggle and I am going to be miserable and those around me will be too.  This process is hard and exciting both.  I have seen the changes in myself and I am looking forward to each New Day God gives me!

The first gift today that I can't stop thinking about is Tracy.  I am grateful for my friend Tracy today!  She has been so many things for me in such a short time.  She is energetic.  She inspires me to want to take care of myself and love life.  She shares my faith, and I need support even in that.  I feel important when I am around her and that is hard to put a value on.  I could go on and on.  But this is a great day because I am blessed with a great friend and that is rare!

Sarah