It has been a difficult week to say the least, at least emotionally. I feel like I am on a roller coaster, (which btw, I normally love) one minute I am soaring in the clouds and the next I am in the depths of sadness. This truly is not fun and I am struggling to get off…sigh. Let’s start by counting my blessings: Celebrating an early birthday with a lovely friend at the theater, my oldest son loving me how he knows I appreciate it (quality time and words of affirmation) an inspirational time with the lovely ladies in my bi-monthly devotional group, a lovely time with a sister close to my heart where we vented and then prayed together for almost an hour…best friends checking in on me, having lunch with me, texting and chatting. So I can read your minds already, what do I have to complain about, right? Well for everyone of those positives there was an equal or greater opposite, negative occurrence! Hard to believe because this is not normally my life but this week has truly been a dichotomy in let downs. Yet I am reminded that I am still breathing, I don’t live in a third world country, my current city of residence is not plagued with riots. I live in a country where despite some negative connotations associated with religion, I am free to pray and conduct myself in a faithful way without fear of reprisal, my current country is not engaged in civil war and my health although far from quality is still helping me to keep putting one foot in front of the other. So I guess I will continue to pray, forgive, encourage and be happy that my God’s mercies are new every morning. I guess sometimes it is simply the way the cookie crumbles and I can choose to be saddened or pour myself a lovely glass of milk and enjoy every morsel of that cookie in whatever shape it comes…thx for listening and God Bless…if we haven’t chatted lately, let’s plan to do so soon 🙂