I’ll be honest, I have heard and read some sad things this past week and I am only now getting to a point where I can find any goodness to write about. Maybe some weeks my posts don’t resonate with you, I understand that. But here is something you can always hold onto: whatever you are feeling or facing or struggling with right now, there will always be good things in your life. Always.

Of course, when I was lying on a hospital bed in the middle of the night last year, I would not have agreed with the statement above. Even now, looking back, I am struggling to see any good moments there. But, there was a fellow patient who kept me company, there was a nurse who brought me warm water to wash, another who always smiled as he went about his business. Even if you are in a worst case scenario, blessings can be found.

Think about a bleak time you experienced recently, but now try and find even one blessing there. We bought a painting two days ago and the artist, Heather Byrne, talked about the ‘accidental paint marks’ in her drawing that caused ‘unexpected movement’. So, in her own artistic way, she has found a blessing. I will never look at that random wave in our painting in the same way again.

I have said it before, and I’ll say it now; life is full of imperfections. But is there a way of seeing some of them differently? It definitely doesn’t work all the time, but occasionally it does. Right now I am sitting down because my legs are already tired and it’s only half ten in the morning! But, the sun is shining on my head and I can see that most of the sky is blue. Like when you fly, the plane pushes through the dark cloud and soon you will see the sun again. Wade through the quagmire of hardship and there will be a view from a higher point that shows you how much you have overcome.

I know that it can be impossible at times to see blessings, but I truly hope that today you encounter at least one.