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Finding words…
Sometimes I have so much to say, but there are no words that come freely or easily. I do not think we appreciate each day enough. I know that I do not. Monday’s are dreaded. Tuesday’s are just Tuesday. Wednesday is mid-week and there is hope that the weekend will soon be here. Thursday is just one more day and Friday is TGIF. Saturday and Sunday we try to fit in as much as possible or sometimes seek to achieve nothing at all. I believe I will make the decision to appreciate each day as it is and view each day as an adventure that I am blessed to have.
There are dark times that we face in life and there are bright spots through the clouds. Most of the time I seek to find the bright spots and seek to find what I can learn from the difficult times. Sometimes it is more difficult than others. Regardless of the belief that everything serves a purpose, it is sometimes difficult to see the purpose that could possibly be served. I look back on the darkest times of my life and I can see the purpose served. I can see where the troubling times of childhood have made me stronger. I contemplate the almost 14 years that I have been married and can see how we have grown closer and even stronger. The times have not always been sunny days, but there have always been bright spots in the clouds.
When I was a child and complained of stormy days, or even cloudy days, Gran would tell me that when you can see enough blue to make a kitten’s boot then sunshine was coming soon. I knew that the cloudy days would not last forever and searched for enough blue to make a kitten’s boot. I think we have to do the same thing in life. Search for the bright spots and let them bring a smile.
6 Responses to Finding words…
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When it’s cloudy and nasty, I listen to the birds sing, to my dogs snoring and know all is well.
When times are tough I think of good times and brighter days to come.
We all need constant reminders that Life’s good, even when it seems hard and dark so often.
Now, what’s a kitten’s boot?
LOL a kitten’s boot is a shoe for a kitten. It wouldn’t take much to make it so there wouldn’t have to be much blue in the sky.
“When I was a child and complained of stormy days, or even cloudy days, Gran would tell me that when you can see enough blue to make a kitten’s boot then sunshine was coming soon. I knew that the cloudy days would not last forever and searched for enough blue to make a kitten’s boot. I think we have to do the same thing in life. Search for the bright spots and let them bring a smile. ”
I just love that! Oh what a perfect phrase!!!! Thanks for comment you left today. Yeah I was in a wee bit of a venting mood. It made me feel better
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Search for the bright spots. That is good advice and a good way to approach life. But, it is not always easy. The day you wrote this, my son died. He was 10 years old. My faith, my world, my life stopped when he passed away.
I am trying to find bright spots. I am trying to keep in mind that I have a wife and two kids here who need their husband and father. I am trying to keep my sanity. But I do not see any bright spots. I do not know how to make sense of the loss of my dear, beautiful, wonderful, sweet son. It seems that all of the bright spots in my life have now gone dark. Forever dark.
I am truly sorry for you loss. It is never easy, and this situation is much worse. You do have a wife that needs you. You do have children that need their Daddy. There are three bright spots in your life. Hold them close and appreciate the love that remains there. I hope that you can mourn and find some way to use his death for something positive. Understanding is a difficult process and one that may never come. I don’t know how anyone makes sense of it, but I hope for the best for your family.
Thank you. I will be here for my wife and kids. They need me and I need to find myself in them.
But I don’t know what to say. I am lost. I will never be the same man that I was. I just do not know how to make sense of the senseless. I do not know how to life. I just can not make sense of life, of God, of anything.