Nancy 5.5

Well here I am! With God's grace I have made it through another year.  I have really not been a fan of my birthday the last few years.  The growing number that each year brings causes me a good measure of consternation.   This year I have come to a place of peace about it...for the most part....that number does bother me though.

There have been times that  I have felt a little beaten and bruised along life's path...often I have felt tired and uncertain.  But Nancy version 5.5 has come to a new place.  A place of hope and joy and looking for the bright side.  I am a work in progress and always will be...but I am in a pretty good place right now...and from here I hope to move forward. I certainly have things I still need to accomplish.  I have struggles, but I always try to maintain an attitude of grattitude.  I always try to be mindful of my blessings....even amidst times that appear to be a somewhat dark.....and somehow it sheds a light on those times.  It is the glow coming from the light  within...that I so often forget about.

Math was always my worst subject.  .So I have been concentrating the wrong number....If this birthday has shown me anything...it has shown me that the number that I should be most concerned with is the number of blessings I have....My children, my furry family, my family, my friends, my coworkers...who truly make life worthwhile.  . that's the number that I choose to focus on. That's the number that is truly important.

So here is to the next year. To looking on the bright side.  To making the decision to have a good and happy life..... to living....to loving....to being present....to being a blessing!

"Count your age by friends, not years.  Count your life by smiles, not tears

~ John Lennon

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,

Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear,

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,

How do you measure, measure a year?

In  daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee?

In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife,

In five hundred twenty five thousand six hunded minutes

How do you measure a year in the life?

How about love?

Measure in love

~ Jonathan Larson, Seasons of Love