Monday was my 46th birthday, and I have to first thank God for letting me live to see another birthday. I had an awesome time, it is a day that I will not soon come to forget. I have been delivered from depression, praise God! It feels good to wake up happy. It feels good just to know that I have a bright outlook on my life. I see thepositivity in things that would usually upset me. Now I will be able to write more than usual. I hope and pray that God will bless me to always be thankful for everything; such as the things that I have gone through, because it only made me stronger than I was before. I sleep better; sometimes I feel myself smiling in my sleep, or laughing. It is so amazing! I am just so glad that I was delivered from depression before my birthday arrived, because if I were not I would not have been able to enjoy my special day. Everyday is a day that I get to enjoy my life again, everything looks so new as to where it was gloomy and sad. Now my days are bright and beautiful. I look forward to getting up and seeing the sunshine, going outside to feel the warmth on my face. It is as if the birds sing louder to me, the air is crisper to me, and the smell of Fall to me is invigorating.
I have missed out on so much for a very long time. I missed so many sunny days. I missed the sounds of nature around me; I had nothing to look forward to at that time in my life, now I have everything to look forward to. I thank God for everyday He has given me to be on this earth whether happy or sad.
I know that there may be times when the enemy will try to make me fall back in the place where was, but I have grown out of that. I just ignore the things that He tries to manipulate to upset me. I deal with things one day at a time, and I pick my battles that I want to tackle and I give the rest to God for Him to handle. What I mean by picking my battles is the things that I have no control of; the things that just happen for no reason or another.
I am not bogged down with chains that were weighing me down, and I do not have to put on a false face and pretend to be happy anymore. I am happy everyday. When I feel sadness trying to creep in I just take deep breaths in and out until it passes. That is one of my coping strategies. I also read and do the things that I enjoy again. He has healed my vocal chord that was giving me problems, now I can sing like I did before it started giving me problems.
I am just sharing what God has did in my life so that you will have confidence in knowing that what He does for one, He will do for the other. Well, I am going to rest now.Everyone have a blessed day today in the Lord our God, and Jesus Christ our Savior.
I selected these pictures because I saw the beauty in them that I would not have seen before.