love.life

After my recent incident of falling off of a step and having a sprained ankle, I have found myself extremely grateful for what I do have in my life.  Although I find myself complaining about using crutches and not being able to walk for the time being, I feel very lucky that the situation is only temporary.  There are some people out there who don't have the ability to walk, see, or perform their every-day life functions.  I admit that sometimes I have to scold myself for complaining when there are others out there who have it MUCH, MUCH worse.  What I do have to be thankful for:  health, an education, parents, sisters, a "love-of-my-life", a place to live, a car, clothes (really cute ones), food and water, values, friends, nieces and nephews, in-laws, pets, grandparents, and SOOOO much more that this would be the biggest run-on sentence you have ever seen!  I have a great life, and sometimes we all just need to sit back and look at what we have and the gift of life that we were blessed with.  Although my "bum ankle" seemed like such a tragedy, it is just a tiny road bump in my life and none of my blessings disappeared because of it.  So I leave you with this:  falling down hurts sometimes, but the ground will catch you, you WILL heal, and Life's blessings will be waiting for you when you get back up.