Smack of reality

Do you ever have those days, weeks, months, maybe even a year or two where you are just in a funk.  Try as you may seeing things on the bright side is just not happening??? It seems like that has been my mantra in 2011.  I am fighting it, but it is just there this ever present wet blanket. Like a perpetually rainy day.  Again I am not embracing or endorsing depression but it has been around this year like a pest that will not die.  (like bedbugs)
 My new tactic in the fight is to communicate one good story to at least one person a day. And to not retell the bad over and over and over. Overall this good story thing is working, I am seeing things from others perspectives, seeing the good in little things good, good, good.  You are getting the picture. I am giving "airtime" to good and  the 3am nobodies listening spot to the negative.
Yesterday having coffee with this sweet lady from church, my 7 and 8 yr old girls were running amuck and interrupting and I was getting annoyed, she kept saying what great girls they are and it's just kids being kids (which it was) and finally she said ," You are so blessed my family is all dead....." Well that stopped my fussing. Is this Pam's idea of a good story?  She went onto explain in 2 years she lost her brother, mother, father and grandmother. She is single no children, essentially all alone.  In that moment I really stopped and tryed to remember the last time I was truly (not just in theory )thankful) for my family.  Could not remember. I am thankful for my gang.  Seeing my girls grow and mature is truly (not just in theory) a blessing.  The good story is my girls and they are super cute and smart and funny and love Jesus and have rocked my world
The theme of November is Thanksgiving, I don't want it to just be for November.
Praying for 2012 excited to shed the wet blanket.