The good isso much greater

No matter what circumstances we are facing at this very moment. We have to tell ourselves...”I am going to be alright.” Why do we catch ourselves thinking about all the bad? Why do we not look at all the good? Can we just for one brief moment look at what we have to be thankful for.
I think of how many Americans are out of a job....Going daily to apply for jobs so they can provide for their families. Families that are losing their homes due to pay cuts and layoffs. People who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Who do not know how many days they have left ahead of them. Parents who have lost a child. Children that have lost a parent. All the sickness that are in families now.

You know my family has been affected tremendously...From my Husband having to take not one, but two pay cuts... To the threat of losing our home....To losing my Father...Now facing the illness of my Grandfather, the most positive, constant and dependable man in my life. In just knowing that I may lose him....To having to worry about my children because of the decisions and mistakes I made in my past that may be having an effect on them now. I can get so overwhelmed with all the negative.....Then I have to stop myself....

I start looking around at what I do have. A home for my family. A way to get back and forth to work. Maybe there has been pay cuts, but we are still getting a paycheck....I had my Father in my life for 34 years....My Grandfather, I have the comfort of knowing that he has eternal salvation, that if it is God's plan to take him out of this world he is going to be reunited with his son (My Daddy)...That I had my Grandfather in my life for these many years. I have friends in my life that really do care for me. A Husband that no matter how much I try to push him away, he continues to fight to get even closer to me....Hmmmmmm....he just may love me. That my children are physically healthy. That God did choose me to be their Mother and I can go on and on of all the good. Astounded to see there is so much more of the good then the bad. It was then I told myself “I am going to be alright.”

How much I have to be thankful for..We think of Thanksgiving as a day to be thankful. Everyday we should count our blessings and be thankful for all the good that is in our life and the bad....Cause surviving through the bad, brings us to greater things.

Many who may read my blogs, notes or whatever you may call them....may think I am a person who is hurting on the inside. Part of that is true, I think we all have a small amount of pain within our souls. Some do have more than others, but it is how we find a way to release that pain that is more affective for us. For me it is writing. My release is sharing my life with others. Yes, I take a chance to be laughed at, to be judged. I want to be accepted by others, but if they cannot accept me for who I am “Angel” then no need for their acceptance.......If my mistakes can help just one person not make the same and it changes their life for the good.....Then my mistake took a turn for the good.