Day 253: Strength

Hello again,
I have to admit I am beginning to struggle with coming up with new blessings to be thankful for. I know there are so many I have yet to mention but I can't always think of them, I don't always see them or I feel that they don't fit with that particular day. Then there are some that I know I should be thankful for but I struggle with feeling blessed by them. I have a list I am always adding to so I can look at it for inspiration and I have added blessings that I sometimes feel I don't posess but added them anyways, like strength. I add them hoping that someday I will feel I can be truly thankful for them. I must have about 50 that I look at and they don't fit with the day but I am still thankful for them. Things like walking on the beach and I hope that at some point this summer I will be able to visit a beach so I am holding off on that one. :) Sometimes I start writing the post not even sure what I will write about and it comes to me as I go. I mentioned that I feel I am having a hard time being thankful for strength because I feel I don't posess it. It may seem odd because the title of this post is strength. So now I would like to explain why I am thankful for strength.
Today I chose to write about the blessing of strength. This isn't easy because all too often I am reminded through out the day how I lack the physical strength others have and what I used to have. But as I thought about it, I realized I may not have the physical strength I wish to have but I have strength I didn't have a year ago or 3yrs ago. So I do have some obviously. It's funny that with strength I often look at what I don't have and still need to get back but neglect to see what I have gained. When I begin to look at where I started after my first surgery and where I am now, I can see I have a considerable amount of strength I didn't have then. I look at how I could not lift a full glass of water and I had to gain strength to be able to walk again. I remember how much effort and determination it took just to turn over and push myself out of bed. Something I have started to take for granted again. Yes I can't lift as much or sit up as I used to before the surgeries, or walk as far as I used to before the surgeries but I can do so much more than I could just after the surgeries. I know that I have strength that other people don't have and I need to be thankful for it. There is always someone worse off right? So I am thankful for the strength I do have as well as the strength I have yet to gain back. :) I feel I should apologize for the length of this post. I try to keep them short but sometimes they get kind of long. Sorry about that. Anyways this is why I am thankful for strength.