Asleep at the hospital

A few nights ago, I was looking at my husband and my daughter sleeping soundly. I then started thanking God for them and I was telling myself how blessed I am to have them.

I then recounted what I appreciate about JA. I am grateful to have a hardworking husband. I am thankful how he loves God and how he loves me and Andi, and how devoted and committed he is to me and our family. I am happy to have a husband who’s brilliant and I can look up to. I am grateful that he overlooks a lot of my faults and he pushes and inspires me to be my best. He always lets me know that he believes in me and he loves it when I live out my dreams. I can go on and on and on.

I realized that night remembering is indeed powerful. It makes me go back to what made me fall in love with this man and why I am dedicated to love him for the rest of my life. It makes me think of how foolish I am at times to magnify the little things that annoy me like how at times he forgets the errands I asked him to do. Or how at times he gets distracted when he is talking to me. Or how until now his shoes seems to be all over the house. And how the toilet seat is almost never put back down. And that is all they are–little, petty things. I can definitely choose to overlook these and I appreciate each day the blessing that JA is to me.

It is the same way with how I look at my daughter. She is a precious blessing from God! I need to remember the joy she is in our lives every single day. I tend to focus at times on how exhausted I feel at the end of the day. She drains the energy out of me often. Or how she demands so much of my time and attention, or how the daily routine of managing our home and taking care of her becomes tedious work at times. I go back to the fact that she is a gift given to us by God. As long as I remember and re-remember that my perspective changes and it actually makes me cherish and maximize every moment that I have with her.

And it is same with my relationship with God. I love the verse in the Bible that says to remember the joy of your salvation. I go back to when God saved me and He gave me a brand new life. How literally apart from Him I have nothing. It brings me to a new level of thankfulness every time. It never fails. Well, that deserves a totally separate blog altogether.

Remembering gives me a thankful heart. So I consciously start and end my day remembering how blessed I am and have been and how every day is a new day to enjoy what I have been blessed with.

Come to think of it, each day just gives me more reasons for me to be grateful!

JA getting ready for his proposal