The Test

As most of you know, I am a worry wart. I stress over things that don't really matter, and I tend to make mountains out of molehills. Craig is constantly trying to calm me down and help me with things so that I don't get unneccesarily overwhelmed. He is such a blessing to me, I honestly don't know how I would cope without him. Anyway, lately I have been struggling with a lot of things and feeling very lost and alone. I have been trying to cope as best as I can and searching for ways to overcome this trial. I was reading a friend's blog and she related how she recently overcame a hard time in her life. It was inspiring. She reminded me that we don't get to choose our trials, but we do get to choose what we take away from them. The Lord will only give us as much as we can handle. He does it because He loves us. He obviously wants me to learn from this, and I know now that I need to look at the positive side of things and be receptive to emotional and spiritual growth. Down the road I will look back at this time and probably not even remember how hard it was. But hopefully I will take something away from this experience that will help me later on in my life, or will help someone else just as my friend helped me. Now that I have gotten rid of the bad feelings, I'm able to see how much good there is in my life. I am so blessed to have three beautiful, healthy children and a wonderful, loving husband who would do anything for me. I honestly don't know why I would ever want for anything more.