...someone else is praying for...

The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for

As I lay here, on the couch, at 5:23 - waiting for my alarm to go off at 5:45, cranky a bit at my LOUDLY snoring husband and my dogs that decide they need to go to the bathroom EVERY day an hour before its time for me to be awake - I read the above sentence in a blog.  This line really hit home.  I am so very blessed.   
 I have a loving, wonderful husband that, though he snores louder than anyone on the planet (and I'd challenge anyone who thinks otherwise), he is so considerate.  He knows I can't go to sleep with the tv off, my brain wont shut off... he can't go to sleep with it on at all, so he waits until i'm asleep and then turns off the tv so he can sleep (and he even puts up with me waking up and yelling at him and turning it back on most nights).  When we first moved in together, he would use those snore strips, and if I ever asked him to use them again, he would.  I take having a loving husband asleep next to me for granted.  I have many friends (fantastic people) who haven't met "Mr. Right" and I'm sure pray each and every night for the opportunity to sleep next to a snoring husband.  I have many others who's husbands have recently left them - unsure if they are still in love or not - who I know pray every night for the person they fell in love with to remember that they love them too.  And I know several people who are married to men that treat them horribly, who don't support, love and respect their wives.  Even if they don't outwardly show that they are, I know they're praying each and every night for a husband that helps around the house, for a husband that doesn't make them feel worthless, and for a husband that is excited to see them and loves them for who they are - not what they can do for him.  (it sounds like I have a lot of friends that have horrible love lives, and that is not true - I also have very many friends who's marriages are inspiring to me and Javier and set such wonderful examples of love and dedication.) I"m so lucky. 
I have 2 very healthy wonderful dogs.  I take my pups for granted.  When Dixie is in your face, demanding attention - I forget how close we were to losing her just 3 years ago.  I forget that she went through a major surgery as a puppy, and didn't get to socialize and get the physical attention she needed as a little puppy because of it... and all she wants is it know we're here and we love her.  When JoJo barks like a crazy dog (and she talks back to you when you tell her to stop) I forget how much I miss the barking sound of some of my former pets.  What I'd do to be able to hear Julio (my late grandparents' dog) bark at us again... or to hear Scrappy bark like a girl - then change when you reminded him... to hear Paje (well, she never barked, but she was a loud runner & it was always fun watching her run down the stairs and slip on the tile at mom & dad's old place)... Then I think about little Turd, and how he was only mine for 4 days, and I never got to hear him bark, or see him grow like I get to do with my pups.  A dear couple friends of ours just lost their dog, Buddy to cancer - they pray each day I'm sure that he would chase one more squirrel.  Another friend of mine just lost a puppy to parvo... she prays i'm sure for that pup & for her pain... I'm so lucky. 
I have a job...  that I actually like what I get to do, that pays my bills.  Though I get frustrated with the system that I can't change yet, I haven't been able to find a promotion yet, I am not always happy with what happens... I take my job for granted.  With the economy in its current state that are millions of people that pray to have a job that they don't always like... to just have a job period.  I know several people that have work 2-3 jobs just so they can afford the pay the bills every month - barely.  There are tons of people working in jobs that they aren't motivated by and passionate about praying to find what they are supposed to do in life.  Praying that they can make a difference in the life of a child.  I'm so lucky. 

This mentality is going to flow over to my exercise blog today as well because as much as the need to diet and exercise frustrates me, I am lucky.  I take the ability to exercise for granted.  I'm not only lucky enough to have found a place for me to excel with exercise and that I do enjoy doing, I also have the physical capability to do so.  A great friend of ours wives lost a leg last year to diabetes .. I know she prays every day she could run with her son, take a walk with her husband, just to be able to stand.  I am so lucky.  


**short version: I take for granted the things that others pray for.