Recently Sally sent me a link to a friend of a friend of friend's blog. The blog is about a 2 year old girl in Houston who is battling a neuroblastoma. The primary author is her mother, but the other day Layla's dad posted and it was pretty profound. Here is part of what he said:
"Much of how we react to the things that happen in our lives is based upon our perspective. The angle we are looking at them from, physically where we stand. To wake up every morning and feel grateful for our blessings requires that we know what it is like to not have them, to have stood for a time in a place without those blessings and to feel the difference in a real way."
I think this is so true about so many situations. It's like the old Joni Mitchell song goes, "You never seem to know what you got til it's gone". Health, job, youth, friends...it applies.
Today I am going to try and be more grateful for my blessings and the beauty in the little moments in this day. At least until someone annoys me :)
3 comments:
Very insightful and profound! As we know all too well, tomorrow is promised to no one. Thanks for the reminder--time for an attitude check!
Well said!
We have as little control over the events in our lives as we do over the weather. What we do have control over is the way we choose to see those events and respond to them.
I try to remember this!
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