Count YOUR blessings

When I write my blog I try to use digression so that no one gets hurt. Now I am always honest but R still needs some privacy so when I write to tell you our life and times please don't think I am being secretive but protecting my family. That being said, here's todays thoughts.


The hymn "Count your blessings name them one by one, count your blessings see what God has done..." Keeps running through my head and I think thats God's way reminding me that we may be in a pit but there is still good in our lives.

R had a very hard day, so much so he couldn't even go to work. At first you and I think "whats so bad you can't go to work?" When R and I talked yesterday he said it gets so bad it's not just in his head, but it physically hurtful.

I have a great friend, Mr B, who I told you has been though this with a family member. I needed a place to go and vent yesterday and Mr B was kind enough to meet with me and listen. He and Kim(his soon to be wife and my second mom) were kind enough to listen and draw from their own back grounds to give me insight so that I can better understand R and kinda give me a loving push to keep loving and encouraging R.

Kim has a family member who also struggles with bipolar and she pulls from the childs standpoint, she helps me see that our kids deal with this just like we do. I never want any one to experience this and I know God allows it so that we can be there for others. Thats why while R has a therapist I am thankful for Mr B and Kim and others who have had to go through this and can walk us though.

I titled this blog count YOUR blessings, well I wanted you to look at the good you have in your life, be thankful for not only what you have but what you don't. I sit back this morning and I am thankful that my husband isn't knocking on deaths door, that he is faithful, that my kids don't have life threatening illnesses, that they are really good kids who listen. Right now I can't see the "bright side" but I can be thankful still for those things I have and that I don't have.