Gratitude is the Motor of Life!

 I have always had a lot to be grateful for in my life.

This doesn't mean that I haven't had to deal with anything serious in my life.

It just means I have had a lot to be grateful for.

The hardest time for me to actually stay alive was between ages 21 to 25. Why?

Because I saw that my life was not going to be anything at all like I had always planned.

But, once again God showed me ways to think and to be because he made me a very intelligent person and a very logical pragmatic person like my father. My mother was more intuitive and common sensical like I also am too. So, I got my father's extreme intelligence and my mother's amazing intuitive gifts too which is something to always be grateful for as well.

So, I think I learned early from my parents to be grateful for everything in life just like they were grateful for their marriage and grateful for me and for them to always have enough of everything good in life.

That's how I see my life too. I have always had enough good in life to continue trying to be alive and helping myself and all others around me.

What Goes around comes around after all.

One of the interesting things to me is that if my life hadn't been so very difficult between 21 and 25 I likely wouldn't have survived my heart virus at age 50. However, I also refused to die then because I had a 2 1/2 year old daughter and a 10 year old daughter and a 25 year old son at that time. Now they are all either with someone or married and two of them have had my grandchildren and our adopted daughter also has had two boys: 7 and 1 years old and is married too. So, we now have 4 grandchildren.

So, I have a lot to be grateful for.

Truly: Gratitude is the Motor of Life!