Feeling Blessed

We've had a lot of rain this May in Seattle. So when the sun came out the other day it coincided with the second storm to hit Oklahoma. It's hard to understand how we can be enjoying a perfect spring day and people thousands of miles to the East of us have a wind so strong their houses are being blown apart.

I said to my husband, "I don't want to feel guilty about being so happy today." But I think it's important that we take stock of what we have now at this moment in time. The attitude of the people in Oklahoma instills in me what's really important.



They have lost everything, but they are grateful to be alive. Some of them have experienced this before, they rebuild, they come back stronger.

It's a long road that's for sure. But after all what they really lost is "things".

I look around my house and I see a lot of things. Some have lots of special memories attached to them. But the memories are also in my mind and I can still share them without having the things.

It's a sunny spring Sunday afternoon. For the last two days we have been able to work in the yard. I have beautiful flowers blooming. The plants have enjoyed the rain. The winter here was mild. Things bloomed early. And I love looking out the kitchen window into the back yard. Better yet I love to go out there barefooted with the dog.

No matter what is going on in your life right now, take a look around you, relish the good, be grateful, be content, but keep growing.

In the last month I lost two friends, one suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 60 and one on his 41st birthday after a powerful 7 years battling cancer. Also this month my niece had a beautiful baby girl.

This is life, we are smack dab in the middle of it, every single day. We are blessed.