Life is Wonderful

Yesterday morning I woke up feeling extremely grateful for life itself.  I felt grateful to be here at BYU.  I felt grateful that I tried rice for my first time in 3 years.  I felt grateful for my friends.  I felt grateful for my wonderful family and the strong relationship that I have with them.  I felt grateful for my roommates.  I felt grateful for the first snow of the year. I felt grateful for the gospel.  I felt grateful for life.

It is easy to feel grateful when things are going well.  Yesterday I had things to look forward to and I was feeling really healthy and extremely optimistic about the new foods that I thought that I could eat.  I was feeling really grateful.

Today, I was rudely awakened with the knowledge that I still can't eat many things.  This is so hard.  I have always known that my mom has done so much for me but now that I am in college I am REALLY starting to realize just a glimpse of what she does for me.  It is hard for any college kid to find time to cook.  It is even harder for me because I never know what my body will be able to eat.  Today, for about an hour I didn't feel grateful.  I felt frustrated.

After that hour I looked around and immediately felt the same joy and gratitude that I felt yesterday.  And yes, I felt this gratitude even when things weren't going as well.  LIFE IS WONDERFUL!  Oh how very grateful I am to realize this even when things aren't so swell.  And such is life, everyone has good and bad days.  It's no secret that gratitude can only improve ANY situation.

I called my mom and told her all the tender mercies that I was noticing today.  There were so many today.  There are so many everyday.

So today and everyday I will try my very best to remember that

LIFE IS WONDERFUL!

Today and everyday I choose to look for the positive in this beautiful life.