We rarely take time in our frenetic lives anymore to recognize our blessings and be grateful for what we have. I have so very much I am blessed with...beyond blessed.
Not all that long ago my sweet student (former student) Elizabeth Rose, challenged me on Facebook to list what I was grateful for on my timeline for 5 days in a row. It will take more than 5 days but it has brought me to a blog. Along with an old friend (old in the sense of knowing her since we were 10) who is chronicling her breast cancer journey and whose daughter had me hooked on her blog on a life journey to her birthright.
As I type my first entries several things surround me that I am grateful for. I have a husband napping in the chair in the den that is my best friend and my partner in all. I waited until I was 37 to marry and I did it right...He is my angel...the one I laugh with, love, and am blessed to grow old with.
I have two rescue pups sleeping on the couch with me. I am blessed to have the means and support to take them in from a life of certain abuse and death and spoil them.
Two weeks ago today in a horrible sudden twist of life, we said goodbye to our third rescue baby, our blind Husky boy Chico. To say he was a blessing is an understatement and he brought us a blessing in a young woman he loved before us that we love so much now.
I just said goodbye after a week of laughter and fun to a brother and his amazing girlfriend. To have his ongoing love and support in life and now her is a blessing people can only dream of.
Shortly we will be getting on the road to drive rescue pups to their new foster and furever homes. Transport...just drive and love. So simple, SO huge in the effort to save homeless animals. I have the blessing of doing this any Sunday evening I want.
I am surrounded by comfort many do not have and forms of support and means that some people only dream of and I am grateful for the ability to give back as best I can in a multitude of ways. I dedicate this to all of the ways I see my blessings and will talk about them all...
Thank you God, I hope I do you proud recognizing it all.
