NOW DO YOU BELIEVE???

I read through FB and I listen to people complain about things they have control over.
There is a Sister out there taking care of her elderly mother, taking care of her sister battling Cancer, being the strong support system for her family while secretly trying to get through her own health issues. THAT Sister I admire. And then you have the Sister crying over her third baby daddy that don't want her.
I listened to, hugged and tried to console a patient that came home to his partner dead on the floor during their what was supposed to be happy vacation together.
Another patient had to care for and prepare her husband of many decades for his death.
Somewhere a young man watched his mother battle breast cancer. Just when she thought she'd beat it, she was diagnosed with brain Cancer. That boy had to quickly grow up and become a man and step in and be the caretaker. Meanwhile, two blocks down a young man complains that its the end of the world because he can't hang out with his friends.
A young boy and his siblings loses their mother to Breast Cancer. Bounced from house to house, they stuck together and stuck it out. It wasn't a great upbringing but they are respectable adults today with a proud mother looking down on them. Somewhere on the other side of town a young man is angry at his baby mother for taking him for child support.
In the Bronx a young woman suffers through the scare of the possibility that her daughter has brain Cancer, all the while sleeping with one eye open out of fear that at night her son will catch another one of his seizures. In that same late night hour a 16 year old young woman is out secretly getting an abortion because she can't tell her married boyfriend that she is now pregnant.
These are all personal friends of mine. I feed off of their courage and strength. I think of then every time I'm in the ER with my sick baby because he's having trouble breathing. I can go on for days about all of my STRONG circle of AMAZING friends. But the common denominator in all these stories is they agreed that things can be so much worst. Now do you believe? When you feel like you are in your darkest hour, remember 9 times out of ten it can always be worst. As long as you are still alive, there is a bright side. Stay positive and believe that no matter how impossible things seem, you were built in God's perfect reflection. He is not punishing you but he knows his creation and knows what you can handle. Now do you believe???
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From the heart of The BlackButterfly