Living The Good Life

John Lennon famously sang, "Life's what happens when you're busy making other plans." While not an acceptable reason, it's the only reason I have for having not posted in months now. So, here I am, back again, setting pen to paper as it were. In the interim, life has flown by at a dizzying pace! It's now been over a year since I moved to my own little home. The cats and I are settled in, and I'm grateful for what I have. Recently, I've helped my older daughter find her lost puppy. No matter their age, when you see your child(ren) sad, you do what you must to rectify it! There's been dating, a false start to a relationship (and an anti-climactic ending as well!). There's been church, work, I took a vacation, was ill for three weeks, I learned to make homemade soap...
Through it all, there's been peace. A surety, of sorts-of knowing that you're in a place you never thought you'd be, and seeing and accepting the blessing that comes along with attaining goals you'd never even dared dream. It's heady stuff, this gratefulness. It colors everything. It defines who I am at my core. It doesn't change things that may happen as my life goes on, but it changes my reactions and responses to those happenings.
I've had car repairs, I'm facing a large hospital bill from being ill. Yet, I've taken the plunge and started saving. It's a tiny amount, but it's a start. Like Pollyanna, I choose to look at the bright side of things. I'm dating yet again. My bills are paid, my tummy is full, there's a roof over my head, I have a way to get to work...So, I thought I'd come and pour out my heart to you once again. Remind all of us how important it is to be aware  of getting caught up in being ungrateful, and to fight against that urge.
I sit here sipping tea from a bone china cup, with a cat purring at my side, taking time before walking out the door in to my work-a-day world to acknowledge that I am blessed. "Lucky", some might call it. I choose to believe that it's not luck or happenstance that got me here, but hard work, toil, sweat, tears, and a little nudge from a Creator who blesses us, even when we don't truly believe we've earned it.
I'm living the good life! While my own definition of that phrase has morphed over the years, the power of those words is in the understanding that no matter where we are in our journey, if we're working, living, going about our day-to-day life-we're living the good life.