Everybody Hurts and Everybody Cries Sometimes…

This statement reminds me of a song…but much more than that is the song …Have you any dreams you’d like to sell? Or, Thunder only happens when it’s raining. Players only love you when they’re playing…

My gratitudes today are wrapped around moving forward and not looking at the past. For the past is a memory, and the future is a dream. But we are who we are, and in THIS moment, I choose to celebrate all that I am and the paths that I’ve walked through that make me who I am today.

My gratitudes for 12/23/2011:

1. I’m grateful for a wonderful man named John who taught me how to love, embrace life, enjoy music, make time in my life for me, understand that a family can consist of a mom and her three children, and who, at that moment in time embraced my love for waterbeds and taught me how to tie the bows on my tennis shoes, and who loved me for who I was. He was a selfless, happy,  and giving man who never asked anything of me, nor ever critizeced or judged me. He just loved me and gave me the world.

2. I’m grateful for my children who I lived for and gave up everything to fight and preserve their right to grow up in a family with a single mom who did everything she could to provide for their happiness, in spite of others who chose to deceive, steal, and destroy what God had created.

3. I’m grateful that it’s not about how much you own, or the money you have, or where you live, or how big your flat-screen is, for when you reach the age that I am, you understand that it’s ONLY all about family, and those friends who you choose to do life with that matter. For when your life ends, the only thing that you’ll take with you are the relationships with those you’ve loved, and who love you back. Yes, nothing else matters.

So if you have angry feelings or thoughts, or someone has robbed you of your joy, or you’re unsure of what lies ahead of you, just take a deep breath, and know that you still have options and choices. Life is too short to not spend it dancing, laughing, and remembering in your most quiet moments that you are the solitary person who chooses your next steps.

If you’re unsure of the remaining hours of this day, or tomorrow, or what lies ahead for you, why don’t you seek the advice of those generational people around you who wish to impart their wisdom. In the “olden days” children and young adults had mentors. Sometimes those mentors were in the form of mothers, grandmothers, and aunts and uncles. Just because they have gray hair, dress in clothes that you wouldn’t wear, and use odd slang words doesn’t mean that they can’t impart some supernatural wisdom into your life.

Enjoy those elderly people who can impart substanital wisdom into your life. One word of wisdom could change your life.

So…what are YOU grateful for today?

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