Blessings All Around Me…
August 22, 2010
Recently I was lying on a fabulous down comforter on a bed in a Hilton hotel room in Minneapolis, soaking up the cool air conditioning and luxurious surroundings , pondering my life. A year ago I was hauling cases of beer out to customers’ cars while in college and now I’m staying in great hotels on all-expenses-paid business trips in an industry I’ve always been fascinated with. I am awed and overwhelmed with my continued blessings. What changes a year makes!
A year ago I was afraid I wasn’t going to find a job to support myself and the kids. My worry was off the charts. Now I go to work every day thankful and happy with my lot in life. I love to give this job all I have not only because I’m thankful but I truly find it exciting and challenging and downright fun some of the time. I am so truly blessed to have all that I have.
I am glad that the memories of a year ago are still so fresh in my mind and that I can continue to be so thankful. The job at the liquor store was essential for us to survive while I went to school, and I am grateful to the owners for their help and understanding. It was a great people place. But now I work with people in an industry that has always been a fascination to me, I love the job and I am experiencing so many new things. I am growing and changing and it’s such a good thing.
Growth hurts. Change can hurt. But it can also bring about new experiences that never would have happened without the pain. I have hurt, but I have grown.
