Counting my blessings!

2008 was a very turbulent year for me. I got into a car accident that totalled the car that I really loved and I found myself out of a job. For the first time in a long time, I didn't know what to do. I felt like my whole world was falling. Yes I had made some bad choices for these events to occur, but it was nothing that was done maliciously. I felt like people around me, that were suppose to be my "friends", were turning their backs on me. I had a small group of people in my corner. I was alone and ashamed. Who wants to tell people they lost their job?

But I turned to the one person that I knew was on my side God! My faith that everything was going to turn out OK was at its strongest. Things definitely looked bleak, but at that moment, I decided that the events that were happening were meant to benefit me, not hurt me. There were many nights that I cried, stayed in the bed (or on the couch) and did absolutely nothing but watch TV. Then I looked at my child and I saw what I was doing was effecting him. I had to get off my ass.

As I look back at everything that happened, I new God's voice telling me that He had a plan for me was real. I did get another job & it paid higher than the job I lost. I got a new car and economically it was better because I got into the accident just as gas prices to rise out of the butt! When all of this happened, I thought I wasn't going to be able to move into my new home. I did move into that home and ended up getting a better deal in the end. I am now in a leadership position in my new job which would have been much tougher to get in my old job.

I look back and all I can say is "Thank you". There are definitely days when I think "why do these things happen to me". But all I have to do is look back and thank Him because He has blessed me with so much. Not just with the physical and a great BFF, but with a stronger faith that there is nothing that man can do that can destroy me. Thank you Jesus!