What an inspiration. I love to hear Crohnies not giving up on life and seeing the sunshine through the rain. This disease can really get you down, but its those that refuse to give up on living that continue to inspire me to do the same.
Speaking of seeing the sunshine through the rain, my life seems to be full of sunshine lately. I'm soaking up the sun as much as I can too!! I am just so blessed. I have a wonderful job where I work with wonderful people, I just got an '09 Malibu (his name is Marty), I got a free upgrade on my cell phone, I will be moving into my first apartment at the end of July, just bought my first mattress set (b/c I would have had nothing to sleep on otherwise), and my Crohn's has been in remission going on three weeks now!!! Everything seems to be coming together. I will say it again. I am so BLESSED!! PRAISE BE TO GOD!!
Having so much, I feel like something bad is going to happen. How can I deserve all these wonderful blessings, and I haven't even listed all of the blessings in my life even! I am reminded of a sermon my pastor preached on a month or so ago. He spoke about how some people think the life is full of peaks and valleys. Sometimes life is good and sometimes life is bad. He went on to talk about how someone viewed life's "ups and downs" as more like train tracks. The good and bad run side by side. Though you have good things happening in your life, you will have some not so good things happening in your life as well.
I found this concept to be interesting. I think there is a lot of merit to it as well. For me, I am blessed every day with wonderful blessings, but I have to live with Crohn's disease every day as well. So just as I have good in my life, I have bad too. The good news is that we can stay on the tracks because life is balanced by the parallelism. Maybe if we focus more on the blessings the negative side of the tracks won't seem so daunting, but just a part of life. Is any of this making sense or am I just speaking in circles. (haha speaking in circles when I'm talking about staying on track- No wonder my head hurts)
Though I may not always make sense, I hope you are able to find some sort of encouragement through this blog. After all that's what it is here for. Even if you gain it from making fun of my randomness, as long as you can smile at the end of the day and know that you are blessed, that's all that really matters.
God is so funny: Devotion for the day- "A Blessing in Disguise"
"Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than receive."-Acts 20:35
[The story was about a woman who could not afford her $3.48 grocery bill as she only had $3.00. The woman in line behind her gave a dollar so the first woman could keep her eggs that she desperately needed. "What my new friend didn't realize was that at that moment, I was being blessed. I often think of that woman and wish she could know that although I helped her only momentarily, she permanently blessed me. She gave me the satisfaction of knowing that, even if only for a while, my giving can make a difference for others as Christ has made a difference for me." ] (The Upper Room)
