By BloggerT7165
I am a survivor. And I am thankful for that.
It’s not something I take for granted because I know there are many who do not survive the abuse that is inflicted by their loved ones, trusted spouses or friends or parents. This is a hurtful experience that literally kills people. And if the wound itself doesn’t kill, then the infection that follows from the collusion of friends, neighbors, confidants, professionals, and others will many times finish off the job.
Every abuse story is a tragic one, but the stories of those who successfully commit suicide are among the most heart-wrenching of all. Many abuse victims survive in body, but are lost in other ways. Lost to the pain. Lost to drugs or alcohol. Lost to self-destructive behaviors. Lost to depression. Lost to fear and isolation.
I am filled with gratitude. I came out on the other side of the pain, suffering and darkness, still alive and somewhat sane. Whatever pain I may have, I am grateful for the capacity to feel that pain and for the ability to speak of it. I pray that my voice may help others and may work for good.
I am thankful for the life I live. I am thankful for the goodness of the people who surround me. I am thankful there are caring people like those I have seen on LF. I am thankful to be able to agree or disagree, I am thankful for all the goodness I see in the world even when it seems so dark.
Than you Donna, Dr. Leedom, Dr Steve, Steve and everyone else on Love Fraud for caring.
TEARS!
I am thankfull that I cry! That I feel for others! I am thankfull that My life is not about the selfish want of most and the Greed that Grips our World! I am Thankfull that My God Has choosen me to bear witness to the TRUTH! To say it out right with little or no hesitation at times! I am thankfull I cause You to think to question, to ponder the sarcasim and Humer of that moment! I promise to always be this way!For I have nothing to loss except YOU!LOVE JJ!
Hey Indi: Good to see you blogging this a.m.
Yes, I for one, would rather be the way I am, then the way “they” are.
So sad, only thinking about yourself. So sad, thinking money and power are the only achievements you would care to strive for. So sad, that you would even want to strive for that (yuck). So sad, not to appreciate every person that came into your life over the years.
Yes, I too, am glad I am who I am (Popeye) LOL.
Peace.
Thank you, Blogger, for this lovely article.
I too am thankful for the chaos and the pain because it made me do something to fix myself and stop trying to fix others. It made me learn to set boundaries.
I view this “experience,” as painful as it was, as a blessing from God to show me “the right way” to live closer to Him, myself and my fellow man.
LF has been a wonderful part of my healing, and the information and support I have received here from the “staff” and all of you has been a big part in helping me reach the stage of healing I am in now. Thank you all!!!
Ox-
You have written my mind! Second that!
I came on this site because I had no doubt that there would be an article about being Thankful.
And here it is. :O)
To the point. Thankfulness and gratitude is filling my heart today. I cried bittersweet tears today. Thankfully it ended being sweet :O)
I wrote a text message to all my friends throughtout the country saying I am thankful for having a friend like them in my life. I am more blessed than I give God credit. And, I spoke to my family, which I would be a lost soul without them right now.
In February my x-s said to me “you will be thankful (for him dumping me) someday.”
Wow, and he was so right!
Wow, am I thankful :O)
Happy Thanksgiving to you all. I hope you all find comfort today in those you love and who love you, and take that with you and remember that tomorrow in your healing journey…
Really there is soooo much to be graceful and thankful for I myself don’t even know were to start!!! Strange BloggerT but this train of thought has been on my mind all day.. So thanks for taking the time and effort to write it.. Oh another thing tomorrow is my birthday so I am graceful for that as well!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NITE!
James
I am very grateful that when I accidentally set my hair on fire today, it didn’t burn down to the root, especially since I grabbed the nearest object to smother it–newspaper. I’m so very special.
How ironic StarG … for that very minute, while your hair was on fire … you were the NEWS.
I hope you are OK!
I burn my hair many times/year. My hair is long … and can and does get in the way …, yes, yes, yes … I do smoke cigarettes … and there are times, if I’m bending my head down to light a cigarette … poof … my hair catches fire.
Oh well.
HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
You Are killing me! That has gota be A women thing! Setting you own Hair on fire! om! Us Men Don’t do that! we use what is in the new world called a Hair tie or the rubberband off the news paper will work to for the financialy strapped! :)~ LOVE JJ
Indi: That’s because you are a preppie personality … now if you were a laid back hippie type guy with long hair, smoking cigarettes, you too would burn your own hair.
Ha Ha!
Peace.
BloggerT7165: Yes, so true. It is that we are the survivors of this devastation that others, so sadly, never survived, whether in physical form or mental form … that we are given the chance by our creator, instinctively knowing if we humble ourselves, go quiet, be still .. we can then move through the pain and horror … together, as family, in unity of first hand experiences, sharing and caring for each other …so that we know we can live a better, healthier, happier, beautiful life … the way our Creator wants us to live and how he always wanted us all to live.
God made life simple because he loves us, people make life difficult because they no not what they do.
Peace to all my LF family.