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Do you take the time each day to count your blessings?

When I was little my mom would tell me to be thankful for everything I had whether it was perfect or not.  She told me that if I wasn’t thankful I could lose whatever it was that I wasn’t thinking thankful of.  I have shared her personal story with my friends and they, like me, will never forget it.

When my mom was not quite ten years old her dad was building a garage on their house.  We was a bricklayer.  He had set up a small scaffold, maybe a foot of the ground.  She was playing on it like a balance beam.  Unfortunately she wasn’t the only one in her family that was playing with the scaffolding.  Her older brothers had been shooting glass bottles off of the scaffolding with a sling shot and the broken glass was laying under the scaffolding.

You guessed it, my mom lost her balance and stepped down off the scaffolding.  She landed right on top of a broken jar and cut her foot where her toes connect.  Her dad scooped her up and rushed her in the house.  He put her in the tub because she was bleeding bad.  They were afraid she would lose her toes.

She did not lose her toes but my mom learned a lesson to be grateful of her “short, little toes”.  She was glad to have toes even if they were not perfect.  They were hers.

I am grateful for my mom’s story.  She has taught me many wonderful things.  Of course I am grateful for my mom.  I have been blessed to have such a positive person in my life.

What are you thankful for?

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 at 2:45 pm and is filed under Positive Mental Attitude, A Road Less Traveled . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.