With all the negativity around us these days and social media encouraging us to compare ourselves to the "Joneses" next door, I think it is all the more important to stop and ask yourself what you love about your life.
I love the Lord and my ever-growing relationship with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I am so thankful that God thought I was worth sending His one and only son to the cross to die on my behalf and take away my sins.
I love my husband. I love that we are working hard at growing through some personal issues that have beautifully overflowed into our marriage, and we are now stronger than ever. We spent years fighting each other and have finally learned how to start fighting for each other, and now we have a beautiful, healthy marriage that can only get stronger.
I love my dog. Before we brought her home, before we even saw her picture I prayed and asked God about her name and, He said, "Blessing." She has been a blessing to us ever since.
I love that even though my hubby and I are so different, we use these differences for our benefit. Every Sunday morning in church, I chuckle as my hubby pulls out his phone, and I get out my Bible as we follow along with the passage our pastor is speaking on that morning. Hubby prefers his Bible app, and I prefer my physical copy.
I love my work ethic and the advantages God has given me through it. I am learning the difference between being a work acholic and a hard worker and learning that I do not need to or should give my employer every ounce of my energy to be a good employee. I use to give my employer all my energy leaving nothing for myself or my family. I have since learned of the damage that caused.
I love that my hubby picks me up from work every day and brings Blessing along for the ride. His hours at work will be changing for the better in a few weeks, which is also a blessing, but I will miss seeing him in the parking lot.
I love and am grateful for my health and the body that God gave to me.
I love relaxing with a good book or my journal.
I love photography and the things that it has taught me. I love exploring with my camera and taking Blessing on photography adventures.
I love walking and chocolate. I have also learned to stop apologizing for the amount that I eat. I enjoy eating healthy and living a reasonably balanced healthy life as possible. Chocolate brings that balance.
I love podcasts. For a long time, I only listened to faith-based ones such as "She Reads Truth" and "Proverbs 31 Ministries." In the last few months, I have branched out and started listening to podcasts on a variety of other topics and learning lots of things about topics that are close to my heart. Including one on ADHD. It has given me a window into my hubby's brain. It has helped me to give him grace and realize that his "annoying" characteristics are not him, but his ADHD. We have known about his ADHD for a long time, but God gave me the desire to learn about it recently allowing me to be a better "helper" to my hubby. Genesis 2:18 "The Lord god said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." This has also changed our marriage.
I regularly describe my lifestyle to people as having the life of an 80-year-old because I do not go out much, particularly to bars and such, and I love to be in bed by 7 with my book. For a long time, I felt like I was "apologizing" for living my life the way that I do, but then I realized that I have nothing to apologize for. Hubby, Blessing, and I enjoy our quiet life.
I also love that my confidence in my physical appearance and who I am as a daughter of King Jesus has been on the rise and it feels amazing. I have a long way to go and some days I take one step forward and the two steps backwards. Thankfully growth is not linear.
What do you love about your life friend?
I pray that this post finds you refreshed on this beautiful Sunday evening and blesses you as it does me.
God Bless
~Hannah
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