AMEN, I'm Alive

I am finding myself facing forward and running as fast as I can into the next chapter of my life. My birthday is this week, and although I am not one for a big celebration, I realized that I have so much to be thankful for, and to embrace. I have been here on earth for twenty-something years, and although in the big picture of things, that is not a long time, I have experienced many things that the oldest of old have not. A lot of my life has been filled with trials, and it seems as though only in the last five years, I have had no real worries. Granted among those five years, I have suffered emotional pain, loss, and a fall from my God, but all that time I have felt loved, and loved myself. I have always looked at my life based on the saying that goes something like.. " you may have it hard, but remember someone always has it harder". I realize that despite the unpleasantness in my life, had it far worse that me.
As I go into this next year, I see all that has happened for me this last year and what is to come. I will be celebrating my second wedding anniversary, I will be celebrating my daughter's 1st birthday, we hopefully will be getting into a home at the end of the year, I am halfway though school come October, and I have no needs. I am also blessed to have made and maintained so many quality relationships this last year. Delilah has brought grace and tenderness into my life and brought out a part of me, that I love. Daniel, my love, he has stuck with me, even in my craziness, and still loves me and is an awesome father, even if he does try to get out of diaper duty! And my family, I am the richest woman in the world to have the family I have, I have THREE great families, whom are always there for me.
This week, my baby had her first overnight with her grandparents, she crawled twice, and has four teeth. I love you more than the sun and the stars, as Matthew West says!
So, Amen, I am alive and really living!