Blessed

These past few months have had me cooped up in a job that I haven't been happy with, and basically wasn't the best thing for me. Although I'm moving on from this job, and only have a couple days left, I have not been in the happiest of moods lately (under-exaggeration). Luckily for me, I have married one of the world's most optimistic people who chooses to see the best in everything, and encourages me to do so as well. While it's still a work in progress, and today was just another day that I would have much rather have stayed in bed, I've decided to trying seeing the good. And the more I think about the good, the more I realize just how blessed I am.

First and foremost, I am blessed to be married to my best friend- someone who loves me for me (all quirks and annoying habits included). He's thoughtful, caring, and the funniest person I know. But the thing that I love most about Kendrick is how he balances me. Through every anxiety attack, cry session, and overreaction to any situation- he is my calm before, during, and after the storm.

I am blessed to have an amazing family who is there for me when I need them.  Over the past few years, I have been blessed to develop stronger relationships with my siblings and my parents as well. But the thing that I love most about my family is that fact that we all just get each other. I'd say we all have a sense of humor that not many get or understand, but for us, it drives us that much closer.

I am blessed to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I am blessed to have the knowledge that the Gospel gives me, and the beautiful promises that come along with living righteously. I am blessed to have the gift of repentance and the atonement- the hand that reaches down and helps pull me up whenever I have fallen. And above all, I am blessed to know that families can be together forever- what more can you ask for?

I am blessed for my knowledge and education. I may have not always been an A plus student, or a "go-getter" in school, but there are lessons that I've learned in my years of school that will stick with me forever. Not only has my knowledge helped me be employed for the past eight years, but there are things that I learned about myself while walking through those halls in high school that I will always take with me wherever I go in life.

I am blessed for my freedom and independence, and for all the brave men that fought for those rights. I am blessed to live in a country that allows me to become who I want to become, think what I want to think, and believe what I want to believe.

I am blessed for my healthy and functioning body. This is definitely something that I tend to take for granted every day. This morning I didn't want to get out of bed, when instead I should have been grateful for the heart that had allowed me to live another day. 

When you realize that you have loved ones by your side, faith, potential, freedom, and health... what really is there to be sad about?