Blessed beyond measure

So I’ve had WAY too much time on my hands at work the last few weeks. I’ve done a lot of thinking about lots of things and so I thought I’d put some of them on paper.








Luke and I don’t have much. We have each other, we have my wonderful family and great friends. We have our little apartment and Alli May. We each have our own history degree. We each have a running vehicle and we each have jobs. We don’t have new cars, a big house, and lots of money in the bank or high paying jobs. We can’t go on extravagant trips, buy expensive new furnishings for our apartment, or even afford to eat steak every night for dinner. Some days of the month we scrape by and eat whatever we have in the freezer, make up recipes and hope we don’t run out of gas on our way to work (ok that last one is mostly me). Sometimes we have to split our electric bill and pay half with one check and the other half in two weeks. We live and think pretty simply. A big night out for us is dinner at Texas Roadhouse and a movie at Hollywood Theatres. Dressing up is something other than tennishoes with our “nice” jeans and collared shirt.







When talking about where we might want to go on a honeymoon if we can get the money, neither of us said to a Hawaiian island or a Mediterranean Cruise, neither of us said anything that was a BIG trip. We both said “a quiet cabin in the mountains”. Simple.







With all this time on my hands to think, and reflect on things, I’ve realized I wouldn’t have it any other way. Sure it would be wonderful to be able to pay all our bills at once with out even batting an eye at the bank account. It would be nice to have a new car that we aren’t afraid will break down. I’d love to own a home with a yard for Alli to run in and a place to call OURS. BUT those things aren’t important. We don’t shop at fancy clothing stores or try to live up to other Midlanders standards. We don’t aim to please anyone but ourselves. We simply live our lives with what we have, love and respect each other, have fun staying in and doing nothing, reading together, playing our Wii, cooking and cleaning up the kitchen together, or sitting on the porch and solving the worlds problems for hours on end. We don’t pretend to have more than we do. We have a lot of hand me down dishes & pots & pans. Our bed is a hand me down, the blankets we have we’ve had for years and years.







But what we do have is REAL, true, honest love and respect. We have awesome family and friends, people that, when those materialistic ones would disapprove of our hand me down ways, will still be around, people God placed to walk with us through life.







I know that someday we’ll be in a better place financially, we’ll never be rich unless we decide to play the lottery someday and happen to win J But I know we’ll be better some day, and we’ll be better for it because of these days, months, possibly years that we will struggle. We may struggle financially, but we are SOLID emotionally.




God really has blessed me in a million ways. I am blessed beyond measure, in ways that I am not worthy. But I am appreciative, I am grateful I am eternally thankful for these life lessons and these blessings that I am continually learning from. We are LUCKY people. I pray that we always know how lucky we are.