“Yesterday was plain awful.”
“You can say that again.”
“Yesterday was plain awful.”

Sound familiar?  Yes I know some of you say that often, but I was asking if you recognize the song?

I woke up early this morning replaying yesterday in my head.  It really was not that hard to do since every movement of my body replayed it too by reminding me how sore I am–Ouch.  Anyway—as I replayed close to every moment over and over in my head, to debrief,  I started to realize that yesterday, in my overwhelming, stressed state of mind, I kept missing the rose in all the thorns of my day.

That rose was my daughter Allison.  Allison is now 10 years old and I am really beginning to see that wisdom and ability to assess a situation and act, grow within her.  In my crazed haze yesterday she was right there with a helping hand, hug, offering of water and just a general caring.  I did notice it, but it really got under appreciated by me as I forged on to complete my tasks.

I think that happens a lot to all of us.  In our crazed haze of stresses, responsibilities, and burdens we miss the blessings.  Now more than ever we need to stop every day and identify those blessings.  We need those to help us make it through the tough times, and those times when we want to throw up our hands and scream “UNCLE”.  So take time every day and look at those blessings.  They may teach us more than replaying a bad day over and over to find the message of what went wrong.  What went so right yesterday?  My blessing—My Peanut (Allison).

And to finish the above song from the musical Annie—-”I Don’t Need Anything But You”.  Thanks Peanut. 

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