Today I am thankful for....

Probabaly about a year ago I came across an artilce in GLAMOUR magazine about a reporter who had gone to Africa to do a report on this special womens clinic there. There was a Dr. who helped African women, physically, emotionally and mentally. I wish I would have kept the magazine so I could refer back to it more accurately, however some of the stories have remained fresh in my mind.

One woman was raped and after she was raped she watched her two children be murdered. One woman was shot inside with a rifle, this woman is still alive today. Another woman watched her sons head be chopped off. There are many more stories similar to this. These women are survivors. Somehow they have found the will to live. They have no control over thier lives, thier loss is beyond meausre and yet they have found the will to fight. So today I am thankful for strength, the strength I have found within myself, and for the strength I see in so many women around the world.

I am thankful for the woman I have become

Although unbearable at times I am thankful for the trials

God has given me

because through them I have learned to fight

Fight for my happiness and smiles

because it shouldn't always be so easy

I am thankful for the politics I don't agree with

because it means I have the right to voice my opinion and my thoughts

I am thankful for the husband I argue with

because it means I am not alone

I am thankful because I got to say goodbye to my baby

when so many others lose thier children with out that chance

I am thankful that I survived

Because even at my darkest hour, when I felt the urge to quit

I held onto the dim light and saw through the sea of tears

A woman's work is never done, is what the people say

I am thankful that I am never done,

because it means I am alive

I am thankful for the strength I managed to find within myself

I dug deep, and pulled it out

and learned it's ok to ache it's ok to be sad

but it doesn't have to last forever

I am thankful to be a woman

because women are strong