Category: Blessings

All ToiBox articles about blessings, from sunshine to family… As of October 2015, these individual posts are no more and have been combined under the About Me label.

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Count Your Blessings 09: Family

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Family

Even though I’ve provided a reference point, family is something that is not so easily defined. I have a feeling that the world has changed in ways in which those who defined this word could not have imagined. For whatever family means to you, you must realize just how blessed you are to have one no matter how big or small, wealthy or poor, functional or dysfunctional.

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t always like all my family, but I never stop loving and appreciating them, and there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for them. I’m blessed to have people in my life who drive me crazy and help make me who I am. Even though I’m sure they don’t like me all the time, it seems that they always like me when I don’t really like myself.

I’m blessed to be part of family, whether by blood, marriage, or association.

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Count Your Blessings 08: Adapt

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Adaptation

Adaptation is a blessing in so many ways. Human beings have the ability to easily adapt, aided by our intellect. We dress warm when it’s cold, we save for a rainy day, and we learn to swim just in case. There is one area of human adaptation that is often overlooked and that’s our psycho-physical adaptation ability. If we smell something bad, even if the smell doesn’t go away, after a while we don’t notice it as much. We feel pain, it lets us know something is wrong, but pain can be adaptable. The first time you get a stomach ache, you may feel like you’re going to die, but years later the feeling becomes annoying. Obviously there’s more to it than that, but in all I think I’ve made my point. I’m blessed to have the ability to adapt.

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Count Your Blessings 07: Humor

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Humor

We are all blessed to have humor at whatever level we can muster. Without humor, the world would be a very serious, dull, and unbearable to place to live. Smiling, laughter, and amusement are necessary to keep us all from taking life so seriously that there’s hardly any reason worth living it.

That’s all.

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