To be Thankful or not to be!

     With Thanksgiving all wrapped up, and the start of a new week you think it would be a refreshing start. A time to really reflect on what we are truly thankful for. We all sat around the table with friends and family, sharing stories and conversation, we all thought how thankful we are for those very people that sat around the table, but it really does end so very soon.

     We would like to think that a part of us takes a little bit of this attitude with us all through out the year, but do we really show it once the holiday is over. We all go back to our busy lives with such busy demands on us, and I believe that yes it is still deep in the back of minds but how are we ever to see it through our daily life stresses.

     I myself spent the last 5 min of getting my kids ready for school in a frenzy trying to find something that was put up for safe keeping and was then picked up and lost. We all think, oh no big deal you had to raise your voice and let a child take responsibility for that what she lost. We all go right back to having to raise our voices at our kids, raise our voices at our husbands and raise our voices at our own parents or siblings. But we just spent the weekend being thankful for these very people in our lives. 

     I think we need to flip it up a bit. Instead of focusing on what we should be thankful for, maybe looking at it in different light would have us maintain a better attitude when it comes down to those boiling points. bare with me here and I hope I haven't lost you.

     If we realized the things we are not thankful for, instead of that what we are then maybe we can start the week trying to change that around. I know I sat at the table and thought to myself how blessed I was to have such beautiful and healthy girls, to have a husband who loves us, and a baby boy on the way that has already brought so much joy to our lives. Yet already this morning, I lost that mantra and was more focused on the girls that lost what they needed, a husband who is gone all week and can't help me, and a baby who is still managing to make me sick in the morning and fills me full of crazy hormones. I might of only lost my way for 5 min, but we can never know how that 5 min would effect the others in our lives.

     Our children our a blessing, and if they need to learn responsibly then we need to teach then, and be thankful for the chance to do so, If our husbands need some reminders to help out more, then we need to be thankful for the chances to show them how, and if our parents are getting on our nerves we need to be thankful that we still have then with us, and a chance to let them know what we really need from them. There is more to it then to just be thankful for them. 

     I am not thankful for the way life can go everyday, But I am thankful that I have a God that has his own way of letting me know that if your are un thankful for the way life treat you sometimes, then we can always be thankful for the chance to learn from that and change it into a thankfulness that can last all year long.

    So for the rest of week, when you feel your patients slipping or your attitude telling you negative thoughts and leading you to un thankful mind set, just remember there is always a way to use that un thankful attitude to bring back some thankfulness in your life, we are human and meant to learn from our mistakes and grow that much more, that is what to be thankful for.