“THANK YA JESUS” by Melinda Stewart Page

If you look at what you don’t have in life, you don’t have anything. If
you look at what you do have in life, you have everything. Whenever
any challenge or inconvenience gets me down in life, that’s what I do
remember—and the power of words, the power of thinking, the power of the
diehard optimistic mind that reminds us that things are not problems unless
we make them so. Provided that something has a solution—and a problem
can’t be a problem without a solution (it’d be a timeless riddle, I guess)—
then it’s best not to think of it as a problem at all. Just an inconvenience.
A challenge. A necessary challenge, in fact, for it’s what keeps life
interesting and not mundane or routine or boring. You need shadows in
order to appreciate the sunlight (just as you need sunlight in order to cast
shadows), in the same fashion that you appreciate your health more after
an illness, or your limbs after a month in a cast, or your loved ones after
their near-death experience. When I wake up in the morning, I feel blessed
to be breathing, and when I stretch I’m blessed to have my blood circulate

freely through every limb. If I can’t see an elephant standing in front of my
without my contacts, I’m blessed because I’ve got the eyes in which I can
pop the contacts; if my legs become hot and ache with bright green veins,
it’s because I’m lucky enough to have two feet to stand on and have used
them more in a day than a person stuck in a wheelchair will in a lifetime;
if a cutting word of abuse or abandon fills my ears, it’s because these same
ears are open in order to receive words of love and harmony as well; if a
dangerous decision throws me into an abyss, it’s only for me to discover I’ve
got invisible wings with which to rise again. It’s a wonderful life, if you only
open your eyes and your heart and you feel it.

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