I am scrambling to get everything ready for Christmas in the next three days. I'm having foot surgery on Friday and want to have everything done before then. I just don't want my husband to have to worry about any of it. Presents are all purchased, just waiting for one package from Thinkgeek.com to get here. I've gotten about half my presents wrapped, so I've got a good start! I picked up the pictures for our Christmas cards today. One of the pictures on it turned out really dark, but not enough to make me reprint it. The rest of it looks good. So three more days of craziness, then down for a bit with my foot. Hopefully though within a couple weeks I'll be feeling much better!
Things aren't always perfect, but they have been good. We have been very blessed this year. That doesn't mean that it is always easy, but it's those hard times that make us stronger. At church yesterday we were talking about faith, about how we are continually tested. It's like refining metal. You have to take out the dross (the impurities) otherwise the metal won't be as strong. During heating it rises to the top. So when we go through something that is hard, we can either come out the other side stronger having taken the "impurities" out or we can come out weaker by letting it get us down. I'm often asked how I can be so happy when I'm always in so much pain. This is pretty much why, I refuse to let it beat me. If I push through it, continue to live my life to the fullest that I can, and try to do so with a good attitude I will come out stronger in the end.
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