“RAINY DAYS, MAKE ME?”
Good Morning and WOW!!! In my part of the world it just keeps raining. I keep thinking at some point it will begin to slow down but this morning it is pouring. I am one of those that has always enjoyed the rain. Even better is some good thunder and lightning. We have had that here the last several days. My son and I sat on the back porch and enjoyed the thunder storm. To me there has always been something relaxing in that experience.
I really feel like I am making some positive progress since my last surgery over two months ago. I guess I need to accept when they take some of your brain out, it is going to create some challenges and a new reality. I am slowly accepting that and develop parts of my thinking and process that has changed a little.
I have to continue to thank so many of you for your support and encouragement. That has happened in so many ways. Time with me, different forms of encouragement, prayers and many other ways. I thank many of you again for your financial support. I have said that feels a little uncomfortable but I continue to remind myself I have not worked going on 7 months, very odd but also zero income. So again, thanks so much for the financial support.
Okay, here is a thought from last week that I wanted to share!
The weather over the last several months has reminded me of this idea. I believe the weather can be a very tangible reminder of the reality of our lives.
The day I wrote down a few notes was a very typical day over the last several months. I started the morning with beautiful sunshine time on my back porch. Time reading my bible and thinking about my life. I listened to a song several times that Andrea my daughter had sent me. It has been hard for me to listen to music since my brain surgery, that morning was a little easier and mattered. I also thought about a friend, who is also dealing with a cancer that will take his life. He and I traded a few text that morning. Sent my kids a reminder that their dad loves them. That morning I also did a few things for my wife, that has been progress.
For me a morning in the sun, was some good progress based on the last several months.
But that morning around 11, the beautiful sun was gone. Then it’s cloudy overcast and feels a bit different outside. The weather changes, no sun and rain. I can’t control those weather elements. The weather is way outside my control, but I always have control of my attitude! This is a very important idea to me and has been for years.
I have a disease that is slowly taking my life. I don’t like that and yet every day, I get to decide how am I going to live today. Do I want to live like I am dying? Or do I choose to live today like, I AM ALIVE?
That last surgery, the process, the physical discomfort and loosing part of my brain has caused me to work on this process more than ever. I have been making progress. I am grateful for that. I choose to believe my attitude helps my health, my mindset and probably blesses my poor wife who is having to go through her own process and so often take care of me in ways she never has.
So, what about you? What get’s in the way of you living your life. It’s not always a disease. Much of life is a choice you and I make each day. Let’s choose life. Let’s encourage ourselves and others in our life to live well, even when there are real challenges we are dealing with day after day. Let’s figure out the parts of life we have control of and learn to let go of the areas that are out of our control.
Have A Beautiful Day and remember,,,,, “You are Loved and of Great Value.”
Peace,