Today's blessing: My home.

My home is not the most expensive in the world but it is home in every sense of the word.  It has a lot of love within these walls.  It keeps me warm in the cold of winter with the fireplace in my den.  I have beautiful sunlight that comes through my big picture window in the morning. She may be looking a little tired and needs some new paint but she is beautiful to me.  I walk out my door and I have peace of knowing that she will be here to welcome me when I return. The swing in the front yard is a quiet place to just "be".  My sons come home each day and they have their own quiet space to go to if they want, but let company come and they are willing to "camp out" in the den.  Since the "company" is usually one of their siblings, they are more then happy to share.  We are surrounded by family and love.  The boys have Grandma and Grandpa on one side of us and Aunt Peggy on the other.  With almost a 150 acres to tromp over and five fishing ponds they are in boy paradise.  They have their cousin Amy across the street to pick on and go swimming with in the summer. And plenty of room to ride their go-cart.   But the most important thing about my house is that Gods lives here as well.

My blessings.

I have been sitting here feeling sorry for myself because I can't seem to get my weight down.  I have been focusing on the negative things in my life. My fibromyalgia, arthritis pain, just my bad health in general and using that as an excuse to eat.  So I have decided to start a series of blogs about the blessings in my life and what they mean to me. It would be easy to just lump them together in this one blog but each and every one is important in its own right.  And I do have so many that my life has been truly blessed.  My first blessing has to be My risen Savior, Jesus Christ.  My belief in Him has truly saved my life not only my soul.  There have been times when the darkness of my depression has become almost to much and death seemed a blissful release, but  I can hear Him whisper to me to hold on to the "lights" in my life and focus on them.  Christ has been the one I lean on when I feel like I am all by myself.  There were so many times when as a single mom I felt so alone that Christ would whisper "I am here".  When I had doubts about my new marriage He tells me that everything will be alright and sometimes when I think Tommy will never change, Christ tells me maybe I am the one that should change. And He is right.  As I sat just a few moments ago feeling sorry for my fat self again, He said"I have given you so much so why is this one thing become so big in your life"?  He is right. Again.