New month, new mindset

The beginning of September always brings a certain melancholy for me. It's not yet full-blown autumn, but summer is winding down. Days are getting shorter, and the mornings are cool. Although I love fall, I feel most alive in summer. My flowers are beginning to decline and the deer have attacked once again.😫 Life feels a little hum-drum and uninspiring. It's time to look at the big picture and remember all my blessings!

Working in a hospital helps remind me how much I take good health for granted. That could be me, dying at 38 after undergoing strenuous cancer treatment, surgery, and all-out efforts to delay the inevitable. Or my husband, on hospice care at 37 because of incurable cancer. But here I am, healthy, able to enjoy food and rest and exercise. I can play hide and seek with my nieces and spend time with my wonderful family. We are financially stable and have good jobs. I can cook, wash, and clean. There's good books to read and inspiration to be found in having devotions. Each day is another chance to live fully and love deeply.