Count Your Blessings, Not Your Problems

Life is amazingly simple and beautiful.

It's so easy to fall into the trap of thinking life is really complicated and stressful. But as I'm learning more and more all the time about how to be peaceful through everything, I've had some awesome moments of being able to just step back and think of how small my worries really are, and how when I look at the bigger picture, I love my life. As I remember saying in a previous post, I don't think my life is better than anyone else's. I think I love my life because I choose to.

I have to be honest and say that I have trouble with my job. Although I work with some friends and I'm very thankful to be working with them... and there are many other things about my job I can be thankful for, there are many other things I'd rather be doing. I'm very bored at work and I count down the weeks until Christmas because I only work at this job until then. However, in the monotony of what I'm doing right now, I think I'm learning a lot and being blessed in many ways.

For the first time ever, I'm budgeting every week. I'm paying off all my debts, saving money for school, putting money into an RRSP, still have more money left over than I expect and I'm so baffled by this experience because I've never been good with money. But I trusted God, and knew that if I would just be patient He would help me to get my life in order, and that it would even better than before I ruined everything because of my substance abuse. Now, just 2 months after going back to work, my finances are in order and I've applied for college again. I'm practicing piano, writing music, I've decided to continue with Royal Conservatory, I'm feeling peaceful, the list goes on... and I don't remember ever feeling so emotionally stable.

So, I guess it's true that good things come to those who wait, but I always feel like it's more than that. Somehow I think good things come to those who choose to see the good in their lives. We should count our blessings, not our problems. Blessings and problems both come and go, and we can learn from both. But we can learn the wrong things from problems if we don't count our blessings.