There comes a time in every persons life when it’s 2am and your laying awake on your couch instead of your bed, listening to whatever that was last night (Hale? Sleet? Snow?) and you have to look back and evaluate your life. The good. The bad. The ugly. And then figure out where your going. To figure out what you see for yourself in the years to come and how you’re going to make it happen. Here’s my 2am epiphany.

I’m blessed. So very, VERY blessed. I’m not laying on the couch because me and my husband had another fight. I’m laying on the couch because sometime between 9:30pm and 2:00am my son came down and woke my husband up and asked him to lay in our bed. And my husband is a big, tired softy between the hours of 9:00pm and 3:30am, that if any of my children ask to lay by him between those hours, he always tells them to climb into bed with us because 1) it doesn’t happen very often, and 2) he LOVES our kids cuddles. So I’m out here on the couch because I don’t like to be laid up against and that’s kind of hard to do when there is 3 people in a queen size bed. And when his 3:30am alarm goes off for him to get up to do his feeding, I’ll probably move back into our bed to get some 4 year old cuddles in and a little bit of shuteye.

Our lives are so very busy that we often don’t get to look back and reflect on how blessed we are until we are booted out of bed at 2am and are struggling to find a comfy spot on the couch. But isn’t the feeling of being blessed such an awesome feeling? Why must we wait till those odd hours of the night when our epiphany strikes to do so? I mean we try to thank God for what we have when we go to Church on Sunday, but often that is hard to do in an hours time because have you seen our world today? We often need that hour to pray for the heartache, and unfortunate circumstances that our friends, family, community, country, and world endure. Sure we get a few Thank you’s in there too and we should talk to the Big Man upstairs on the daily, but it’s really not until your 2am epiphany till you realize all you have to be thankful for. Till you actually have a minute to realize how blessed you are.

So here, as my eyes are finally starting to get heavy again, here’s my list. I’m so very blessed to have 3 adorably, wonderful children (yes, even that grumpy one) who are asleep (though not all are in their own bed), safe, happy, healthy and fed. I’m so very blessed to have a husband that works hard from sun up to sun down. A husband that who took his vows “in sickness and in health” very seriously and loves me unconditionally. I’m so blessed to have a roof over my head, food on my table, a job to help provide, and clothes on my back. I’m blessed to have this couch that seems to only have 1 comfy spot at 2am. And I’m blessed to have made it through the storm not only once, but twice with good friends and a great family by my side. You guys make having one leg not so bad after all.

So I finish this post with a challenge for you. Sleep great tonight. Don’t be laying awake at 2am thinking about how blessed you are and then forget to do it amidst the craziness of tomorrow. Find time between the basketball practices and the crockpot supper to remember how lucky you actually are. Even if it’s just a minute or two and you can thank me later. Because though the days may seem long sometimes, the years are short and everything must change eventually. It’s inevitable. So before they do, realized how blessed you are because tomorrow is never promised and life changing is hardly ever expected.

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