While talking to my mom on our daily walks....

Mom: There's so many houses on sale in our neighborhood.  There's only two that's under contract.
Me: yes, you said that yesterday.
Mom: But there's so many houses on sale.  It's going to take a long time to sell our home.
Me: (humming)
Mom: There's not many people looking at houses now.  The market is slow.  Pray that God will help us.
Me: um hmm.
Mom: But i can't say God hasn't blessed us.  He has blessed us a lot. 
Me: Yes, mom.  We've been really blessed by God.  So much so it's almost unfathomable.
Mom: Yes, dad's business wasn't doing so well and all of a sudden we got a check in the mail from the government.  Also now, dad's business is starting to pick up.
Me: Mom, you have to count your blessings.  Yes, we've been really blessed.  We're a lot better off than many many people in the world.
Mom: Still it is still necessary for me to complain once in awhile.
Me: I know, but concentrate on the blessings.  If you keep focus on the blessings, you don't see the bad things so much or have time to think of things that aren't going so well.
Mom: yes. i know.

Sometimes we see the dark things because we let it blind the light but i hope we all can be able to focus on the good and be able to see how much God really loves us.  Why do people like to focus on the bad things that happen in the world?  Is there no good that they see and realize?

Father, Thank you Lord for all your blessings and grace and o so much more.  How can i even express this gratitude to you?  You've given me so much that i can't even count them.  From family who love me and give me more than i deserve.  Their desire to help me and forgive me even though i'm meanest to them.  My mom who gives me all she has to help me with my payments, my dad who once took my blame, a brother who always cares even though i'm never nice to him.  And my extended family - they take me in late in the nights when i need a place to stay, they help me out when i don't know how to ask, they give me many things and desire my presence.  You've give me a job without working extremely hard to find it.  I'm able to work with kids and see them grow so much within a year.  Though i don't think i'll be ever able to inspire or influence them to great ends, i know i have made memories and made small impacts.  I'm able to do something i enjoy doing and get paid for it.  You've given me friends thoughout my life who have stretched me and helped make me who i am today.  And you have given me friends now who accept me as i am and enjoy my company. People who care about me and spend time with me.  You've given me little siblings and children - more than i could even imagine or believe possible.  Kids to love and tend to, to feel loved and needed, to spend time with, to be there when i can, to desire their presence as well as have them desire mine, to pray for them, to work along with them, to guide them, to help them, to cry with them, to laugh with them, to care for them and worry about them like a mother, sister, and friend.  You've give me many provisions from clothes, to food, to car, to home and much more.  You've given my family and i good health.  You've provided a kidney for my mom for her transplant which couldn't have been more perfectly matched.  You've given me a purpose in life and so so so so much more...but most importantly, Father, You have given me your love, an unconditional, forgiving, graceful, ever-present, over-sized, unmeasurable, limitless, empowering, deep, immense, unimaginable love.  How do i even start thanking you for such blessings?  For loving and blessing such a little person as I, God, to such extent.  Thank you, Father.  Thank you.