I have decided that I need to have a blessings journal. I have been through a lot lately and I need to remind myself of the blessings that have come from the Trials. I truely believe that with every trail there are blessings sometimes we have to look hard to find them, and sometimes we don't find them but they are there. I also believe that if you look for them they become easier to find.
So here I go... 2 days before Vacation I got a speeding ticket... was I speeding? i don't know for sure but I probably was since I have a lead foot... the Blessing is this is that I had to go to traffic school, I have learned to lessen the weight of my lead foot and I now TRY to keep my speed within the limit, I also learned a lot that I had forgotten over the last 23 years.
On the way home from Vacation we had an accident the totaled our only working vehicle... Blessings one of the other drivers was from our area, I know his kids from school so he brought use the 3 hrs home... we got a "New-to-us"car that is bigger, so when we go on vacation again we have more room.
About 1 week before my brother's wedding my father had a stress test done, the results where not good, 5 days before the wedding he had to have Quad-By-Pass surgery done... have not seen the blessing here except that he could have had a major heart attack at the wedding.
3 days before the Wedding mom fell and broke her shoulder... Blessing we canceled the rehearsal dinner and had a desert (just cake and punch) much less stress on mom, my sister and me.
Thursday night needed to borrow a vehicle from the neighbor... it was a truck get to mom's need to move stuff from her attic like closet. It wouldn't all fit in the car as we had planned used the truck and got everything moved to Brother's house in 1 trip.
Dad had to miss the wedding... We really thought he would be out of the hospital in time and we had made the plans of how to take care of him at the wedding... blessing was less stress on us, we didn't have to worry about whether he was over doing it... we all got to enjoy the wedding and my brother is now married to the love of his life.
Dad was suppose to come on Sunday meaning Christina would have to stay the week after having an already stressful one... dad didn't come home... blessing was that Christina got to go home and have a whole week of rest while I took care of mom.
I can now see that the struggles and trails that I have gone thru have many blessings some I haven't even listed. I truly believe that listing our blessings help us grow stronger and learn that God doesn't close a door without opening a window.
"That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
Been there, Done that, and still learning.
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