Life can be cruel, and unforgiving but I have learned that out of every trial in life there is always something to be thankful for. One of my favorite sayings is...What the devil meant for bad, the Lord meant for good. This helps me to push through the hard times which I have had many this year.
1. My 16 year old son was robbed at gunpoint for his tablet while walking home from school. (Jan)
2. I lost my job (one week later)
3. I lost my baby and a tube just as I was embracing being pregnant. (Feb 13)
4. My husband lost his job. (One month later)
5. My husband finds work, but they don't have work.
6. Our car was stolen. (one months later)
7. Our uncle takes a downward spiral in his fight with cancer, with my husband being his only local next of kin. (a few weeks later)
8. My husband is declined job after job because he's deemed over qualified. (all the time)
9. Husband finds work making a fourth of his average pay.
10. Uncle passed and husband is unable to attend due the to new job.
11. Husband finds out he has to take a pay cut because the company really doesn't have a position for all the people they hired.
I can go on and on, and the year is not over yet. But through it all, we are still blessed. The bills are still paid, I still have my son, and I gave myself a job. We have grown stronger as a family unit and as a spiritual unit. Even after all we have been through it was by God's grace, and for that the Polk family is very thankful.
So here I am enjoying my Thanksgiving Eve with my only surviving child.
