OK, so I missed yesterdays gratitude post, but I have a really good excuse. I was up all night Friday night throwing up, and litterally got about 1 hr of sleep. So yesterday I was pretty much wiped out. But today I woke up feeling great, and am just so grateful to not feel like I'm going to die. I also have had the opportunity for the last few years to be sick with crohn's disease. I know you're thinking, that doesn't really sound like an opportunity, more like a curse. And I felt that way for a long time. But now that I'm on the other side of it, and my body is healthy again (after lots of prayer, work, and prayer), I really am grateful for the trial of being sick. Not only do I really appreciate just having a body that feels good and works properly, but I learned so many things in the process. I learned to trust the Lord in a much deeper way. And for me I think being grateful for this trial starting one Sunday when I was in Kennewick for church, and their RS lesson was about trials and challenges, and the teacher told us to think about one of our greatest challenges and then to think about whether we were grateful for it. At the time I thought "No, I'm not grateful for this suffering, are you kidding me"!! But it got me thinking about it. And somewhere along the way I have become grateful. I just feel really blessed to have a Heavenly Father who knows me, and sends me the experiences in my life that will help me to learn and grow. And I have also learned that I really don't want other peoples challenges. Sometimes certain things in another persons life look really great, but then when you look at the whole picture, it just wouldn't be what you want all in all. So there's my morning gratitude post. I'll have to come up with another one this evening to make up for yesterday.
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