A Little Comparison

The other day I stumbled across this blog and I felt very.....small.

Not that my problems and issues aren't a big deal...because they are to me but in the big picture, the BIG scheme of things, they are very small issues.

The blog is called Don't Waste Your Cancer.  This woman sees her cancer as get this....

A GIFT

That's right, you read it correct. 

Libby Ryder is a 27 year old woman who is married with a little 1 year old daughter named Ava.  

This is an excerpt from her blog:

this blog is going to tell our story of some recent news that changes everything. justin and i were talking about this yesterday...we decided nothing will be the same again, ever. but in the best way possible. we are excited for this new path in our journey as a couple and as individuals. i told him this past week that i was thankful this was all happening now and not in 60 years when we were older and had missed out on loving Jesus this much, or each other this much, and everyone around this much. since we never saw this one coming. i guess that is what you sign up for when you decide to give your life...we are talking your life here...to Jesus Christ. it means trusting him with everything. i thought i did though. but now i know that i didn't. i mean i did a little. but not like i do now. this is our story and since we are not writing it, God is...we have to trust that he wanted this part to be in ours.

 

Libby has Stage 4 lymphoma.  Cancer.  

 

She is less than a year younger than me.  So, while I am worrying about when we can move up to north, get out of debt, have kids, get more money in savings; this woman is worrying about having enough energy to make her daughter's Halloween costume, being able to get out of her own bed to put her daughter to bed, being healthy enough to see her daughter grow up, scheduling her life around chemo treatments and trying to find a cute way to cover up her thinning hair.

 

I have so much.

 

Sometimes it is so easy to take your life for granted, to think of the negative and not the positive, to always want MORE.

 

Today I am thankful for my health.

It shouldn't take a diagnosis of cancer for us to be thankful.

So....think of everything that you have in your life, not what you don't.  We can all have bigger houses, less debt, more savings etc...

That doesn't get you anywhere though.  Things could always be better but let's be thankful for how good things are NOW.

 

So - cheers to a new week and hopefully no more snow!!!!  

 

 

What are you thankful for today?