By Erika Glover
Something changes in you when you see someone go through pain. It makes you more aware of the blessings. My grandma is in the hospital right now. She's the kind of grandma that holds the family together, the kind who can't come in the door at a family gathering unless she has her world famous Mac n cheese, and the kind who drives a light blue convertible punch bug-with eyelashes. She's incredible and never ceases to make us grandkids laugh. As I sit in her room right now, I flash through some of our greatest memories and can't help but be so thankful. The way we view our days help us to make the most of them. After all, we only have so many here.
I think everyone can learn to take a better appreciation for the moments in our life that we get to spend with the ones we love. I have no idea who said it, but i live by it, "it's just a bad day, not a bad life." (I also apply it to my golf game, "it's just a bad hole, not a bad round," but thats beside the point) and something about thinking about the good makes the bad seem a little smaller.
Pause & flash forward 14 hours
I typed that at the hospital. Now I'm sitting on my couch the next morning. Last night on my way home from the hospital, I was in a car accident. I'm still shaking and the officer was totally right, it does hurt worse the next day. Weird how God had given me those words before that happened. I can't stop thinking how much worse it could've been and God had to have kept me around for a reason. And now I remember, just a bad day not a bad life, i've got to think about the good things to make that bad one seem smaller.
This is a reflection that St. Ignatius practiced
1. Become aware of God’s presence.
2. Review the day with gratitude.
3. Pay attention to your emotions.
4. Choose one feature of the day and pray from it.
5. Look toward tomorrow.
Songs of the week:
Exhale by Plumb
He is With Us by Love & The Outcome
10,000 reasons by Matt Redman
Scripture of the week:
"From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another."-John 1:16
Thank God for each day. It's a blessing.
Love always,
Your sister in Christ,
Erika
I think everyone can learn to take a better appreciation for the moments in our life that we get to spend with the ones we love. I have no idea who said it, but i live by it, "it's just a bad day, not a bad life." (I also apply it to my golf game, "it's just a bad hole, not a bad round," but thats beside the point) and something about thinking about the good makes the bad seem a little smaller.
Pause & flash forward 14 hours
I typed that at the hospital. Now I'm sitting on my couch the next morning. Last night on my way home from the hospital, I was in a car accident. I'm still shaking and the officer was totally right, it does hurt worse the next day. Weird how God had given me those words before that happened. I can't stop thinking how much worse it could've been and God had to have kept me around for a reason. And now I remember, just a bad day not a bad life, i've got to think about the good things to make that bad one seem smaller.
This is a reflection that St. Ignatius practiced
1. Become aware of God’s presence.
2. Review the day with gratitude.
3. Pay attention to your emotions.
4. Choose one feature of the day and pray from it.
5. Look toward tomorrow.
Songs of the week:
Exhale by Plumb
He is With Us by Love & The Outcome
10,000 reasons by Matt Redman
Scripture of the week:
"From his abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another."-John 1:16
Thank God for each day. It's a blessing.
Love always,
Your sister in Christ,
Erika