Overcoming One Day At A Time

One of the most complex situations I have been navigating, especially the past few years, is forgiveness. Forgiveness is not an immediate response in most, as truly deep offenses are a process to forgive.  Forgiveness is an action that is so powerful it has the ability to break down fortress walls that people have built up to protect themselves, it's a force so strong it also influences everyone in  the world around us. Forgiving someone is difficult, and sometimes it feels downright impossible. The impossible feeling comes when we don't get that apology. We don't get the acknowledgement that someone has detrimentally affected our life. I've had some of the most atrocious things happen to me by other people. Most never apologized. Each situation changed who I was, and it took a lot of work to get back to being ME. The me after each of these circumstances was forever changed, sometimes wiser, sometimes stronger, sometimes bitter. I'm not perfect. I wont sit here a...

I was contemplating a lot of stressors in our life right now and I had to go in my prayer and praise notebook. I looked back at all the things God has walked us through this year, not even counting the last 2 years plus of event after event after event. After looking back, I cant help but be thankful for all that God has walked us though. A little over a year ago I had been working extremely hard by myself to get my Dad transferred to Va from PA after he had multiple strokes that they attribute to his alcohol use, that left him blind in both eyes and mentally incompetent as well as physically unable to move. It has been one extremely financial strain after another on top of all my daily medical expenses. I've been on Iv treatments, at least 2 days every 3 weeks for almost 6 years, as well as multiple surgeries. I was the sole person doing everything for my father financially and physically. I had to petition for guardianship of him which was a complete nightmare because that ...