From Fingerprints To Masterpieces : Grateful in 2020? Why Not?

Let’s face it when we rang 2020 in on December 31, 2019 none of us expected what we got.

No one cheers in a year knowing a pandemic is around the corner.

That natural disasters will destroy towns, cities and countries; or that social unrest will lead to the violence and riots we have seen.

Who would have predicted that masks would become the height of fashion and necessary wear in public. I am pretty sure none of us would have stayed up late and partied in a new year we thought would be what we have experienced.

One Thing I Am Sure of is We Each have Something or Someone to be Grateful For.

Sometimes you have to really look at a situation and dig for the good.

I had no idea in April, when we went downstairs to do the laundry, that stepping into a foot and a half of raw sewage would actually become a blessing.

Nor the week before having my hours cut would be an amazing gift, allowing me time to clean the mess we had just discovered.

All I knew is I felt dirty, defeated and paralyzed.

Two days later the out of state landlord who had not seen his property in over 20 years would announce he was not fixing, what was becoming an annual, and increasingly worse problem, but that he was selling and we needed to relocate.

Try taking that all in on a tight budget, in a pandemic and in a house that smelled worse than an outhouse.

But now 7 months later, we have less stuff, to clutter our hearts and lives. We live on a tighter budget, in a very small space. But we have all we need, a clean safe home, a place to do laundry, a tub we can safely take a bath in and each other and all three of our cats.

Yes, that disaster in the basement was a blessing in disguise.