A great day to be alive....

...the sun's still shinin' when I close my eyes.

I woke up today, and just had the best feeling! Life is so wonderful...
Seems like the last few months I haven't fully been able to realize that, mostly because I didn't want to. This last week at work was pretty much the most stressful week of my life, and for the first part of the week I kept complaining about how much I had to do. Wednesday rolled around and I was anything but cheerful and nice. The cutest little man came into work to have his eyes checked. I find it amazing how willing older people are to share their life stories with young adults who by most of the world are seen as a nuscence and a bother, especially when the person isn't being very warm. Well, this man was really quiet, but so full of life and opened up immediately as I took him back to start the screening process. He started talking about his wife, who had passed away 8 years ago, about how much he loved her still and missed her everyday. I could tell that he really was in love with her because he had the biggest smile on his face. He then talked about how three of his four children had been in a car accident about 11 years ago, and two passed away and one was severely disabled. Then, he started crying. He said that his youngest and only daughter had been fighting with cancer for the last few years. She had two small children and a deadbeat husband that had left her a few months back. I asked how she was holding up, and he said that one week before she had passed away. It got quiet for a minute, mostly because I was holding back the tears. Finally I offered my condolences to him. I asked him how he was so strong and able to do it. He grabbed my arm as I helped him out of the chair and he looked me right in the eye and said, "Faith. Life is just how you perceive it."
I wiped a tear from my eye, and thought about this man and what he said the whole rest of the day and even to this day. How true it is. Life is just how we perceive it. If I want to COMPLAIN about the fact that I am privelaged enough to actually have a job, and complain that I have a car to drive and a place to live and food to eat and PLENTY of clothes to wear, then of course I'll be miserable. I still have all my brothers and sisters, my parents are both still alive, and we're all pretty healthy. BUT...if anything was to happen, I know that my FAITH in the Savior and His plan would be able to help me through anything. With God, anything is possible.
This man who probably was just talking to anyone that would listen, really taught me what I needed to hear. I will be eternally grateful to this man who was in tune enough with the Spirit that he knew exactly what to say to touch my heart of hearts... THANK YOU.