Just Sitting Here...

I am just sitting here at my desk, just finishing up sending out an invoice for several items that sold, and I have no idea what to do next.  Should I try to spruce up my store?  Should I try and look for some new items to add?  Should I write the Great American Novel...?  Uhhh...maybe I should go back to just sitting here!  :)

Seriously, I try to keep myself busy with my work because if I don't, sometimes I get really depressed...clinical depression, I mean.  Nobody likes to talk about stuff like that -- mental illness -- but it is out there and real people struggle with it every day.  I'd like to think by having my store that maybe I brighten up someone's day, someone who is possibly struggling with some of the same things that I wrestle with...every day.  Every single day, it seems like.  Is anybody else out there like that?

Some people may have depression, bipolar disorder, or maybe something even more serious than that.  Who knows?  Only you do, and those with whom you have chosen to share your life with...I mean, really share your life.  Not just, "Hi, how are you?"  "Oh, I am fine.  And yourself?"

I find that if I "tinker" with what is now my life's work -- Angel's Treasure Trove -- it gives me a sense of satisfaction that at the end of the day I have really accomplished something, however small it might seem to others.  God has so richly blessed my life that I cannot sing His praises enough.  He sent to me my "knight-in-shining-armour," Larry, my husband, who I cannot gush enough about.  :)  The Lord has also instilled within me an unusual ability to communicate with others who, like me, sometimes find themselves scratching and clawing through life, just barely having enough "skin-of-the-teeth" there to hang on for another day. 

Yet, hang in there we do, and we survive.  Some of us even thrive.  That is what I am aiming for -- to thrive and have such a zest for life that I can't get enough!  I do love my life, despite the difficulties it proposes at times.  I know that Romans 8:28 says that "Behold, all things work together for good..." and I truly believe that.  I may not see it today, and I may not see it tomorrow, but one day this flower will bloom and everyone will see it.  I will give God all the honor and glory due to Him, because it is only because of Him that I live and breathe and have my being.  Praise the Lord!