What am I thankful for? It's a question that I have been turning around in my brain today. I keep glancing over to the alter with the two paper turkeys and four candles encircled with the harvest colored flowers. I can only think of what my family has sacrifced to help me through the last three years. Where I have come from to this moment to know that maybe things are not perfect but it's awfully close.
I am thankful for my mom who always keeps me on my toes and continues to watch after me as she did when I was a child. I am thankful for my dad who gives me great objective advice. I am thankful to Barry who is my lover and bestfriend. I am thankful for my children for continuing to love me unconditionally. They are the most precious people in my life. There are so many others that I can barely think of at the moment. I am humbled but the love I feel through friends and family. Yes I do not have the best job and I have a small apartment but I am blessed by my eternal mother and father. Thank you to all who are in my life. Thank you to those who could become a part of my life. May we all be blessed by those who guide our lives through our prayers and devotion. Blessed Be
This blog was written in 2012, and so much has changed since this time. It is September 4, 2015, and in a few days Barry and I will have been married for
two years. The years have flown by with lightening speed. We have a blessed family. There are many other things that have come into my life. When Barry and I married I gained two sons, Matthew and Triptyn, who I have chosen as my sons. My heart is full with my wonderful family. Matthew will graduate in May 2016. William, Abby and Triptyn are at that age where the fun never stops between Mine craft, movies about dinosaurs and superheroes. The blessing has also come with pain.
My first years with Barry and family have not come without its pain. I was given a diagnosis of osteoarthritis. This caused my hip to have no cartilage at all with pain shooting through out my body every minute of the day. While I worked, family gatherings or going to school I was in pain. The tears flowed daily and I couldn't stop it. The glimmer of hope came on June 9, 2015, as I woke up from my hip replacement feeling nothing but relief. It was the first time that I was not in pain. Things have only become more blessed within the last few months. I can walk. I can walk a flight of stairs, swim in the pool and date night is not cut short. My brain often wondered why I was unable to get fast relief from the pain. The lesson was that through suffering the doors are opened to receive the greatest blessing of a life that is beginning to be lived. My hope is that I can live well. AMEN
Lady RavenWolf
