In a private journal entry from a while ago, I mentioned that …

Sometimes the hardest things we have to deal with are the best things for us. At moment, I’m finding that everything is going where it needs to, regardless of what my plans or hopes have been. It’s hard to be grateful for something that causes pain or upset, but it’s the only way I know how to keep moving forward and put the past in its place. Gratitude allows lessons to come through. I keep reminding myself of what I’ve learned, and try to keep those things with me.

The funny thing is how true that whole sentiment is, and how I didn’t really appreciate it fully at the time I wrote it. Many things have fallen into place over the past month that I couldn’t have possibly imagined before … my life has turned in a direction I’ve not foreseen in the slightest, and I am loving every minute of it All I can say now is that gratitude does make all the difference. Also, remembering that we don’t always have our lives as well-planned or perfectly figured out as much as we might think. Sometimes it’s better not to think so much. Just kind of … be. Don’t try so hard when all it does is complicate things unnecessarily.

~ by surfhoney on Saturday, 14 March 2009.