Blog for May 13th, 2024
Glad & Grateful
First of all, happy belated Mothers Day to all the moms, mommy’s, grandma’s, aunties who stepped up and dads doing it alone. God bless you all, as they say, “the hardest job you’ll ever love”. Boy aint that the truth!
Besides our Mother’s Day type celebration, we (our family) celebrated my granddaughter’s graduation from a community college. I can’t tell you how proud and happy, glad and grateful, we are for her. It may not seem like that big of a deal to some of you, but we (our family) know what this little girl (25 years old) has been through and it is nothing short of a miracle that she reached this goal.
I have always said that the women who survive hard, abusive, lonely, crazy, hurtful times, and had to make a hard choice and a come back to a better life that brings them to successful achievements in life are my hero’s. Or rather, heroines. And yes, we are for sure celebrating her accomplishment at this time, but there are many women that have not been able to get out of that rut, the abuse, the mental crisis that it causes for them. It is not easy to pull up out of that.
I am so glad and grateful that my granddaughter has risen up. She is smart, beautiful, sweet and amazing. She is a talented artist too. I know she will go far in this life. In fact, she is the one I got the “glad & grateful” from. I caught it when she said it on a message to me last week: because I have been grateful, but felt sad, even angry, but to be glad and grateful seems to me to the ultimate.
Due to NA, AA and programs of recovery, I know many women like that. They are not quitters, (except for drugs) they are achievers and doers. They are fighters and love fiercely. They are very grateful and glad to share their love and recovery with others. They lift me up when they don’t even know it, and for them, I am very glad and very grateful.
I am the blessed one to sponsor women like that. They are incredible, amazing, caring and loving, especially to their families. What a rare and awesome gift recovery is, to give us back our mom’s, sisters, aunties, grandma’s and daughters. This is making me cry right now. My sweet warrior granddaughter is making me cry right now, all I can really say is thank you Lord, thank you so so much. I am truly glad and grateful.
Question of the Week: Do you know a special woman who has “risen” above her downtrodden circumstances? Give her honor and respect if you do, she deserves it. And please, keep helping others to “rise”.
