It's been a long time since I've posted. I'm of that generation that is the pen and paper pusher. Yet, as I do my journal each day, I've had the sense that I'm supposed to share it on this technology so part of our culture! You see, mentoring, or the sharing of my heart and the lessons I've learned in life, is something I've been told I do well. I've experienced many things in my life... divorce, miscarriages, brain cancer and early death of my children's father, my loving companion...and through it all, I've learned lessons in life.
For instance, I have come to realize I must be purposeful in acknowledging blessings. I have found it, in fact, to be very advantagous to actually write them down in a list. In the first 4 months of my husband's diagnosis of anaplastic astrocytoma of the brain (level 3 brain cancer), we kept track of the blessings that were already in place when we didn't know we needed them... a move to Houston, giving us MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2 families in our church that we'd known over the years...a ready made support system, and a move of our close friends and parenting partners to Houston as well... we lived 7 houses away from each other. I don't believe those "helps" just happened...and there were so many more. Today as a single mom, I continue to count my many blessings...and I don't intend to ever forget to do so!
There are many attitudes that I have choosen to take through the many roads in life, but one of the most important, I believe, is that I choose to count my blessings. There is so much for which to be thankful. Life may be taking place in the trenches of death and stress, but there are blessings also. So, from this point on, I wish to share with you my journey as I live life. Stuggling? Yes. Pain? Sometimes. Scared? More than you can imagine. But, thankful? Almost always... and I search for the road of thanks until I find it! I pray you will, too!
