Have you ever just taken the time to breathe? To just sit and think about your life? Everything that you have? Today I decided to change up my normal routine and write outside. I've been wanting to do it more than I have been but there's always something that gets in my way. So this evening even though the house was quiet I set up my laptop on my old rusty lawn table and got stuck. Yes stuck. I sat there and stared at the monitor unable to do anything with it. All I could do was smile. Which I haven't done in a while. I don't know what came over me but I was filled with emotion as I breathed in the fresh air and felt the wind on my skin. And at that moment I just felt grateful. I felt truly blessed. I don't know how but all of the things that have been bothering me just went away. They are so stupid, so minute compared to what I have right in front of me, all around me. Because I was so fixated on all the negative things happening I had forgotten the beautiful things that I have been blessed with. Men will come and go as will material things but the most important things that we fail to appreciate are around us all the time and never leave our side. I had been so selfish fixating on crap that won't matter ten years from now that I had forgotten what GOD gave me and continues to bless me with. I feel like I have gotten some type of clarity. I can honestly say that this has never happened to me before. But I definitely needed it. I gave thanks to Jesus for yet another wake-up call. Lol. He knows I needed one.