Over the past few months, I've had the good fortune to reconnect with
people that I'd lost touch with for one reason or the other. Each time I
have left a gathering, I've had such a feeling of happiness. When I sit
alone in my house, I tend to focus on the losses - my husband and the
life I had planned with him. But when I get out and around people, I
realize just how lucky I am to have wonderful people in my life, people I
can be myself around and who love me in all my brokenness. For all I've
lost, I still have so much good in my life. I'm going to make a point
to focus on that and break the habit of looking back at the past and
work on building a new life with the friends I am so very thankful to
know.
Lisa-Jo Baker (lisajobaker.com) hosts a weekly event on her blog called "Five Minute Friday". The rules are 1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking. 2. Link back here and invite others to join in. 3. And then absolutely, no ifs, ands or buts about it, you need to visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them in their comments. Seriously. That is, like, the rule. And the fun. And the heart of this community.. So here's my first try at this. Today's topic was Roots. Roots – I think about my grandparents who lived on a farm until my grandfather’s diabetes worsened and they moved to a town with a hospital nearby. My father still says he wished he could have kept that farm. I think of my grandmother who was a widow for 20 years. Every year she would stand over my PaPa’s grave, wishing she was with him. I think of my parents, a product of those grandparents, how hard my father worked to put 2 girls through...
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