Thank God, that to be Alive is actually a Blessing!

“Express your aliveness by giving - of yourself, of your resources, of your heart.” ~ Patti Digh

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. I know that sometimes
the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack. In fact we all must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. 

All adversities are like strong winds. They tear away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. In such situations we turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them for us to learn the bitter lessons of life. Yes, at the very bottom of our soul we feel grateful to all our problems, difficulties, misery and bouts of sickness and everything about us that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves us with a hundred backdoor through which we can escape from enduring habits. 

The irony is that in spite of all the tragedies we face in life we still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Thank God for that!