Gifts

Adversity - it is the thing that no one wants to experience but yet everybody does. Everyone does. We just all experience it differently. Different experiences make us who we are, what we are to the world. The rough spots make the sweet spots sweeter. How we rise up to meet the adversity tells us a lot about ourselves, about what we are made of, who we want to become - the test arrives.

I always thought I was strong, resilient, capable. After all we have been through as a family I know I am strong, resilient and capable. Thinking you are and knowing you are is a gift. Would I have preferred to not experience this gift?  Not the way I did but I am grateful so many positives have come forward in my life.

I have an amazing family, amazing in-laws and unbelievably kind, sweet and generous friends. My family has to love me unconditionally. The women in my life, and who have been in my life, have been amazing role models and I look up to them. Their belief in supporting other woman friends and standing beside each other is something I hold dear and I hope to experience this with my friends into old age. Another gift.

I hope to keep supporting my family and friends like they have done for me. To give back to them and to our military community. Gifts.