Simple Gratitude

Hi y'all.

This is the last late post before I get back in a regular schedule, I promise.

I don't have a lot of time, but I just wanted to remind you of  something:

The world can be dark at times, both the world around you and your personal world within you.

It can be easy to be overwhelmed, and I'm not saying that you don't have the right to be hurt and upset and worn out and just done sometimes.

But there is always something good just waiting for you to see it.

Maybe you have a cloud of despair that you have to burn through first, but when you do, there is always sunlight on the other side that has been shining there the whole time.

We just have to look up and see it.

Here are some things that I'm grateful for today:

1) My incredible forever family

Yes, we sometimes get on each other's nerves and we don't understand one another perfectly, but we love each other fiercely, and will defend one another to the end. And best of all, we are sealed together for time and all eternity, and will be a family for all of this life, as well as the next.

2) My Savior and Heavenly Father

Even when no one, myself included, understands how I'm feeling or what I'm going through, they do.They want what is best for me, and even better, they know what that is and how to lead me to it. They have provided hope in the darkest of times, and I know that if I look to them, I will never be truly lost. God and Christ love me with a perfect love and, if I'll let them, they will guide me through even the roughest patches of life.

3) My amazing body

It's not perfect, in form or function, but there is still so much that I am capable of doing because of my amazing body. I can walk, talk, think, move, laugh, eat, dance, and type up this blog post because of this amazing gift I've been given. It can be immensely frustrating when my body has new limitations and I am left unable to do things I previously loved to do, but I am still so grateful for this gift and for all that I am able to do because of it.

Your turn.

Take a look around.

Push away the curtain of your despair, or the weight of your worries, or the cloud of your doubts.

And see all the things you have to be grateful for.