Oh, to be thankful for . . .
Sometimes, when you stop to think about what you should be thankful for, you feel the need to have a base of comparison. Quite often, in these so-called "Modern Times" we live in, when I see a person who is obviously homeless, I think to myself "There, but for the grace of God, go I". The odd bit comes when I think the same thing as I see someone in an SLK (the only Mercedes I have ever really "wanted") drive by me on the highway. For some reason, unknown to me now but, at other times, clear as a bell, God has seen fit to put me in this group of people called "The Happy and Content in the Middle". I'm grateful He has because the other extremes of where He could've put me, are sometimes too obscure to ever understand.
"The Happy and Content in the Middle"
I have a wonderful husband; Brian has given me an unconditional love the breadth and depth I've never known before but am ever so grateful to have with me now. I have a caring sibling family whom, despite our parents' worse fears, remain close emotionally even if geography doesn't always lend a hand. And I have an in-law-family of parents, grandparents, and siblings that also provides a warmth and caring that makes it easy to see where and how Brian learned to love and be loved so deeply. I have a job that I enjoy doing and the bonus is that I get paid for doing it. I have food (and a husband that cooks!) and a roof over my head that doesn't leak with a desk that's next to the furnace vent.
Don't get me wrong, there have been times when I've wondered
why my cup seems to be leaking from the bottom. Sometimes it takes
the "Oh, to be thankful fors" of this world to realize, that the cup is
not half-empty, its not leaking from the bottom . . . it is, in fact, overflowing
with goodness and riches.
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