Blessed & Grateful

I woke up with a song in my heart this morning.  I’m a little tired, but I am still happy.  I don’t always wake up this way, but even if I don’t wake up feeling blessed, I look around at everything and start thanking God for all my blessings.

You’ve seen the quote, “We can’t always be positive…we are human”, right?  And that’s true.  We are human.  We have human emotions, human flaws and sometimes we just can’t seem to put a smile on our face.  But once we stop and see all our blessings and see all the problems that we don’t have, we are a little quicker to thank God for our blessings.

I’ve seen better days, but I’ve also seen worse.  I don’t have everything I want, but I do have all that I need.  I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up.  My life may not be perfect, but I AM BLESSED.

I sometimes get emails from people who question my positivity, who question why I am always so happy and always sharing uplifting messages.  They always ask me, “Don’t you ever have bad days”?  And, yes, I do have bad days.  But I choose to do everything I can to turn the bad days into good days.  I choose not to dwell on the negative and totally focus on my blessings.  I have found that when I do that, my day is better, my spirits are lifted and my smile is back.

My life isn’t perfect…far from it. But it’s a blessed life and for that I am so thankful.  If you ever hear someone say that their life is perfect, take it with a grain of salt.  No one’s life is perfect.  Life is very tough sometimes and you have to be tough sometimes in order to get through it.

Even with the tired feeling and the aches and pains that I have more often than not, I am blessed.  I am blessed to wake up, I am blessed to be given the gift of a new day.  This new day will take me closer to where I want to be.  The day gives me the opportunity to work more on my dreams and to pray and plan for bigger and better things.  God is good.

God has blessed me so.  I am so grateful.

Sending you blessings of love, gratitude and hope for the future from Sterrett, Alabama!

Charity