What do you FOCUS on? With my 21st anniversary coming up this week on the 24th, my emotions have been lots up and down.....Many people asked me why I drove 10 hours to the SendOutCards Treat Em Right seminar, well one cuz I do every year, and I think it is important, but two because I LOVE my SOC family and friends and I know the state of mind I get into when I am in that atmosphere....Even though I have been blessed with being raised very well and to think positively and focus on the blessings and the good in everything - (because even when we go through the *bad* - we can find the *good* in it if we want to, right?) and in my business I have been in almost 10 years now we are taught that.... and I dont watch tv or do radio, or read things that will not benefit me, teach me, or lift me up - can STILL fight those *thoughts* of oh pity me instead of FOCUSING on the BLESSINGS that come out of something right? And even though I have been taught this and train my mind on it ALL the time, sometimes, I still *struggle*.....but God always allows things in my life that always teach me and help me to FOCUS on my blessings and be thankful - and I am SO thankful He has put people in my life in my family, my church, my friends and my businesses that are SO beneficial to me in so many ways, spiritually, emotionally and more, that love and surround me with positivity....and a 10 hour drive up to MI and back you have lots of time to *think* and it can *go either way* so important to focus and re-train your brain when it does start to *go wrong* and you feel yourself start to cry, to re-think the positives and think of the positives..... It is NOT a positive that Bryan had passed away, by any means, but I know it *had to happen, one day* and that is the day God chose it to happen, and there are SOME things that I have learned to think about and FOCUS on, and I am sure there are more blessings and good things to come, or more than I do not see *yet*.....these are just a few things that when my mind does start to wander, that I have chose to focus on: 1) He was taken quickly, in the wreck the doctors said it was almost instant, and he was in little to no pain before it was over (I am thankful for that, in the last year and a half, I have met and got to know many women that their spouse died in a long sickness, or after a wreck after hurting many days/weeks/months) 2) Our Pastor got to tell a little about him at his funeral on his personal side, and I have been told about a few people that got saved, or got back into church, after hearing some of his story. 3) I have had several people private message, email, text, and call me saying how when I shared about our almost 20 years of marriage, and some of the things we went through and made it through - how they re-focused on their marriage and are telling their spouse they love each other more and getting closer and trying to work things out. 4) I am blessed with knowing confidently I was the only girl my husband has ever been with his entire life. 5) I am blessed that God gave us almost 20 years together and he was able to be here for much of my childrens lives (I have met women over the last year and a half that only got to have their husband a few years, or their children are very very young and wont get to know their daddy like mine got to) 6) It happened while he was at work, so that was able to help with the expenses of the funeral, etc. 7) I got to have an AMAZING love in my life for almost 20 years.....(I have met women and talked to women that never have even had the chance to experience that, that some have been married, just cuz it was the thing to do, but not ever been *truly happy* and in *real love*. 8) It happened when I was out of town at a meeting with my business, with my Mom there with me (which she rarely travels on my trips with me), and my two youngest kids were with me, and my son was at work and rode with a good friend that could be there for him on the ride home that day, and I was surrounded by my SOC family when I got the news to be loved and cared for, and amazing friends that drove and followed me all the way home that 4 hour drive and drove back that night - just to make sure we made it home safe, and our CEO of our company who offered to fly me or do whatever I needed to get me where I needed to be. 9) Bryans friends from the police dept that came out and showed him all kinds of love and support, and the honors ceremony and so many people that all couldnt fit in the parking lot, and so many call, text, or message me just letting me know they drive by my house to still for me to know that I am looked out for and protected. 10) My amazing kids that even though are getting older, and starting to do their own things some, still I know any time I need them, are here for me, and my parents - who have been my rock all my life, but especially this year, and my sisters who are my best friends - that I know I could call on any time I needed, and Bryans family too, who his mom is like a mom to me, and a great friend, and his sister, like my best friend too, and I can count on.... This is the words to the song that was sang in church this morning - I remember through some other *hard times* in my life, singing this song though my head, through tears, and even know - hard to hear it without crying - but it is true, might not be a *blessing in disguise* so to speak, but you can FIND the blessings IN it, no matter what it is - if you chose to focus on it - Blessings We pray for blessings, we pray for peace Comfort for family, protection while we sleep We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering And all the while, You hear each spoken need Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops What if Your healing comes through tears What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know Youre near What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near We doubt your goodness, we doubt your love As if every promise from Your word is not enough And all the while, You hear each desperate plea And long that wed have faith to believe Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops What if Your healing comes through tears What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know Youre near What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise When friends betray us When darkness seems to win We know that pain reminds this heart That this is not, This is not our home Its not our home Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops What if Your healing comes through tears What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know Youre near What if my greatest disappointments or the aching of this life Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world cant satisfy What if trials of this life The rain, the storms, the hardest nights Are your mercies in disguise
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:57:15 +0000
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