Even though I’m going through a difficult time I need to stop and remember to be grateful.
Frist I’m very grateful that my stepson is doing very well and is alive to see another Christmas considering he was close to dying earlier this year and was saved by double lung transplant. I’m grateful that someone was giving of themselves to be an organ donor. Yet I'm sadden that a family out there has one less member at Christmas died.
I’m lucky to have two older brothers who still come to the aid of their baby brother and who have been very generous this Christmas so we can have a nice Xmas. I’m grateful to have my mother still alive and every year sends me country ham and a bushel of grapefruits and oranges from our birth State of Florida.
I’m grateful to have a wife who has been understanding and is hard working. I’m grateful to have a wife who has a family that is understanding when it comes to my unemployment and who has been helpful and generous when it comes to the kids or I should say the young adults.
I’m grateful that I have two stepdaughters who are understanding and are good people and not criminals or trouble makers.
Even though my unemployment is a bit less than I was making and I have to pay for a COBRA insurance that is a considerable cut into my unemployment wage, I need to be grateful that at least I’m getting financial assistant and I have insurance.
I have a roof over my head and bread on the table and at least my pickup is paid off. I’m grateful to have good friends in the real world and a few on the internet. I’m grateful to be born in a free country. Plus I’m grateful that I have a Creator who has eventually help me in the pass when times really got hard and provided a path to follow and even worked a miracle or two. The Creator may not give me what I want but he does give me what I need.
I know that there are people due to no fault of their own who have it so much tougher than me. Even if I was homeless and living on the street with nothing than the clothes on my back and a blanket to keep me warm at night I would have to remember that I’m better off than the homeless person without a blanket. As long as I know that there are people who have it worst that I do I should not complain and be grateful.
So I want to wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
UR
