How do you do it!?

I have had people ask me, "How can you still be such a sweet, kind person who smiles a lot and still loves people when you have been through so much?" The answer to that question is very simple. Only by the strength and grace of God. For, without His strength and grace, I would either be addicted to drugs or alcohol, in a jail cell, on the street or dead.

It is impossible to get through extreme difficulties such as the ones I have been through without the hand of God. I am very thankful every day for what God has given me the strength to survive. Most people would have given up already, saying that life is too hard to live anymore. But not me. I have seen and felt God's strength in every area of life where I have been weak. Through every hurtful word spoken against me, every hand raised against me in anger, every lie told to me, every betrayal and every time when I have felt completely alone in life...God has given me the strength to endure.

That is not to say that when I was in those lowest valleys throughout my life that there weren't times I wanted to give up. I had no more strength, energy or will to go on. But because God's strength is made perfect in MY weakness, He gave me just what I needed to go on one more day, then one more month, then one more year, and then...one more decade. He made something wonderful out of my life that had the potential to be absolutely nothing.

This makes me extremely thankful, even for the smallest things in life. It also gives me the ability to laugh at little, silly things. I have learned to cherish the smallest things in life that most people probably do not even notice. I thank God for this gift to see beyond the difficulties that could have easily destroyed me, and enjoy the little things in life. I ask Him to help me not take the little things for granted and to enjoy each day as a new gift from Him.

God bless! :)

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