Struggling and Adversity

Just when you think you’ve got the meaning of life figured out you get blind-sided! There are things that are well within our control and some that are not. I have thought long and hard about some of those things. Thought about ways to change them. Have, in fact, racked my brain with many different scenarios on how a scene might play out and then return to nothing at all. I guess the bottom line is to never take anything or anyone for granted. We’re all guilty of it! The question is – will we admit it?

However, it takes two to make a relationship work! And if you’re being fought at every turn you tend to back away. I know – been there – done that. I try to see the glass as half full but there are times when it looks more than half empty.

I’ve raised three children and I remember struggling in those early years. I remember how buying a gallon of milk had seemed monumental. We had macaroni more suppers than not but we survived. God always provided. And those things may have been small but we needed those things to survive.

Remembering the struggles brings tears to my eyes even now. We are talking more than twenty years ago – but those struggles had been necessary to survive. A little adversity never hurt anyone. It made you come out stronger. It made you realize that when you got a little extra that you were grateful for it and didn’t take it for granted.

There’s more to life than giving your children everything they ask for. Just as there is more to life than making money. All I had ever wanted to instill in my children was my love for God. Integrity, morality, and loyalty. Traits that I felt defined who I was. Who I am today. When we ask God for something and He doesn’t immediately deliver do we turn our back on him and try to get what we want another way, or do we wait? I’m choosing to wait this time. When my reward comes it will have been worth the wait!

Forever Purple Flowers

Remembering a special place...

Every year around this time my heart feels that ache. A little bit more this year because I'm doing second round edits for Past Reflections.

Forever Purple Flowers...