Sorry ..It has been a while since I have blogged...

Good morning,

I have been blessed in many, many ways.... new friends that I have made and found...old friends that surrounded me to wish me a happy birthday. New places that I have traveled to and discovered. There is a verse in the Bible that says," His mercies are new every morning". Every morning I wake up, I am amazed at how much I am blessed and how much I have to be thankful for. This is going to seem totally random but I was laying on my bed yesterday, looking at the corner of my bedroom at my clothes closet and thinking," God, I am so grateful to have all the clothes in that closet "... then thinking," not only am I grateful to have clothes in that closet but I am thankful that I even have a closet to put them in". then thinking," not only am I thankful for having a closet that is full of clothes but I am also thankful for having a roof over my head with a closet full of clothes."I think you get the drift of where this train of thought was going. This time last year, my situation was much different than it is now, not bad; but much different. Every day is a gift to be unwrapped by you. I think this is the way that He has set up this life. I remembered reading how life is like a woven tapestry. If you have ever seen a piece of woven tapestry you would notice that the back looks very different from the front. The back looks like a very disorganized,disjointed; seemingly random mess...full of white threads going up and down , red threads zig zagging back and forth, and a streams of black threads moving diagonally,vertically and horizontally in a what seems to be an unresolved pattern . Then when you turn that tapestry over you very quickly discover that all the thread patterns are not random at all but very purposeful. Each thread is there for a reason, each color is placed in the absolute correct spot it should be to create the beautiful picture you see before you full of shadows and light and shades of multiple colors. Life is very much like that to me now... there are good days and bad days. Sometimes the days are bright and green and clear and sunny...other days are dark and cold, windy and rainy and make me question why they are allowed and why did that day even happen... I'm positive that one day it will all make sense when I see things from the "other side".