No matter what's happening...

"No matter what's happening...Take time each day to remember all that's good in your life"




I believe that we all just go day in and day out in our busy lives by working, raising children, or whatever your life takes you down the path. Do you ever stop and take the time each day to remember all that you have that is good in your life?




I am sure most state that they do and then other's could honestly say they don't. Of course those of us blessed with children truly look at them as the good part of our lives. And many other material things.
But stop and think, really think about what it is that you can remember all that is good in your life.




Once you become chronically sick you find yourself doing that more frequently. As I read the other night, "even when our bodies fail us, our minds can take us anywhere - Our freedom starts inside".
I will tell you when I read that last night over and over it hit me upside the head. My body has and is most certainly failing me, but my mind seems to think I am still young. And of course I feel young at heart and yep my body just sits back and laughs. But to think our minds can take us anywhere? So where is that? What does your mind help you to remember that is good in your life?




I have so many things I like to sit or lay and think about, great memories, good memories, decent memories, not so good memories, many regrets and so on and so on. But why dwell on thing's that don't make us happy? Why not think about all that is good to us in each day?


Even though I live the life of a sick person, my mind still keeps my busy in thought. I do think that I like to look at the good things in my life. I have my kids, my dog Maggie, my husband, etc etc. Those things I will never let go and along with them all I will never let go of those memories.


As one of my daughters is getting married in November and I sit taking pictures to continue with the Power Point for her reception it just makes me laugh, cry and snicker at some of the things that we all did in our past. My children when they were young makes me happy and I realize they are one great thing in my life. But beyond our children, family and friends. What truly makes you realize the good things in your life daily? Some may say football, pizza, motorcycle rides, etc. Unfortunately I can't do some of the things that people do truly look at daily as a good thing. So now my good things in life are a good book curl up in a chair and read and let my mind take me out to those wandering places of joy that physically I won't ever be able to do. So that is one good thing in my life daily. I could never ever live with out music. I am very much a music junky. The one thing that keeps me going daily is my music. So one of my good thing in my daily life (and my best investment) is my Bluetooth headset. It's a must have. For my husband his one good thing daily is the TV and of course Dallas Cowboys football.


I enjoy all of the sights, smells, butterflies, birds, sounds and a good bonfire of the earth that God gave each of us. Nothing is better than a smores (my daughter once ate 14 smores) along a warm bonfire on a cool evening. That is a good thing in life.


As our Gastroparesis family looses a warrior there is a circle of life. God takes and gives back. I like to look at these warriors, who have suffered for however long, gain peace and joy and become our Guardian Angels. Their is a great thing we can look for daily. They place things in our daily lives that everyone just walks around and never looks for. But I do look for them. Signs they give us, the extra twinkles in the stars, the pennies on the ground (my father always had change in his pocket and he would walk around jingling it), the other day I found a dime and two pennies. It was his way of telling me that the next 12 years of my life will be either full of life if I choose to look for the good things daily or my next 12 years could be the hardest I make it. Now what the 12 cents stands for I am yet to find out from my Dad, other than he passed on the 6th and maybe 6+6 makes his 12 cents.
Question I await to be answered. I love birds, and therefore I am always finding feathers. My Mom was a huge fan of Indians and I have a dream catcher tattoo and it has feathers. So I do think my Mom gives me these feathers daily to remind me of her and her loving touches.


So what do you see as daily gifts you get every day? Stop and think and look for them. Let your mind wander into those places that your bodies can't take you. Dream never give up the dreams you have because simply those dreams may just give you peace.


Keep Smiling
Carla