Blessings

It's one of those days again when you hate almost everything and everyone. Aaaarrrgghhh. It feels like falling into a well that isn't at all wide enough to let you climb back out. Everywhere you turn, it's walls, walls, and more walls. I know life as I have it now isn't really like that, but it sooo feels like it anyway. 

And then God reminds you just how much He loves you with something big. Something miraculous. Something you couldn't have achieved on your own. Something that shows His divine protection on your whole being. An assurance of His everlasting love and faithfulness. So you smile again and pick yourself up.

Ashamed of your rants and grumblings, you start to count your blessings starting with a wonderful boyfriend who has lately been going to church with you on Sundays even when it means not really spending time with you, but actually learning about God. He understands that you are struggling to put God first in your life and is willing to take the back seat to support you with that. Then you realize how despite the imperfections of your family you have a caring father, a very loving albeit nagging mother, a supportive brother even though you don't understand him most of the time, and a brother who takes care of you when nobody else does. 

All is right in the world again.