I've been thinking of starting a blog here for a while now, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to focus on. I could just write about health, but that information seems best reserved for discussions where it is relevant, otherwise it can just be depressing at the end of a day. I could write my thoughts on God, though if this blog was a bunch of preaching I dare say few here would read it. The main other thing in my life right now is helping out here at Phoenix Rising, which isn't exactly the kind of thing that belongs in a blog, and I have little cognitive stamina for other interests. So what to write about?
A friend pointed me to "One Thousand Gifts", a best-selling book challenging people to look for the beauty of life in the moment. The author had witnessed something horrific in her childhood and then grew up to suffer agoraphobia, and when someone dared her to write down a list of one thousand things she loved, it transformed her life as she learned to see God's gifts to her all around. And thus she began to trust this God who was so loving as to grant her all these gifts and to believe, despite the tragedy she witnessed, that God is good - good to her specifically, in her life, right now.
This blog is to be a record of blessings, of seeing that beauty amidst the ashes of intense suffering. I don't do fake happy. This isn't about trying to force myself to be grateful - it's about writing down the thankfulness already on my heart in order to remind myself and others that despite hardship that only those with our condition can understand, that it is a good life, well worth living, and, by God, I'm going to live it.
A friend pointed me to "One Thousand Gifts", a best-selling book challenging people to look for the beauty of life in the moment. The author had witnessed something horrific in her childhood and then grew up to suffer agoraphobia, and when someone dared her to write down a list of one thousand things she loved, it transformed her life as she learned to see God's gifts to her all around. And thus she began to trust this God who was so loving as to grant her all these gifts and to believe, despite the tragedy she witnessed, that God is good - good to her specifically, in her life, right now.
This blog is to be a record of blessings, of seeing that beauty amidst the ashes of intense suffering. I don't do fake happy. This isn't about trying to force myself to be grateful - it's about writing down the thankfulness already on my heart in order to remind myself and others that despite hardship that only those with our condition can understand, that it is a good life, well worth living, and, by God, I'm going to live it.
