RIP John McCain – Thank you for your service to our country.
I don’t ever want to politicize this blog. I’m not a very politics oriented person. However, I will always be grateful to those who serve our country. Thank God for all of the people who are willing to do the jobs that make my life and the life of my family members easier, safer and free. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
John McCain was a prisoner of war for many, many years. He was tortured, starved and isolated. I’m in total awe of people who can go through personal tragedies of that magnanimity and come out the other side still being able to function, serve and grow. How inspirational! What a reminder of the resilience of the human spirit!
I read once an interview with several former prisoners of war. Despite the horrific torture, pain and solitary confinement many of them had gone through, it was almost unanimous that the starvation was the worst part of their ordeals. I’ll probably enjoy a nice brunch with my family today. I don’t even think about the idea that there won’t be enough food for me and my family to eat today or any day. What a blessing that is in itself!
I guess sometimes you don’t know how good you have it in life, until something is taken away. All of the things that we take for granted on a daily basis are in fact accumulations of blessings. Thank God for the farmers and the harvesters and the truckers who drive the food to our stores. Thank God for the people who work in our stores to give us access to the harvest. Thank God for our ability to pay for our bounty and for the physical ability to ingest our food and savor its multitude of flavors. Meals are just one of our many, many daily blessings.
I hope that today we are all blessed with a sense of utter gratitude for the many, many miracles that will form this just one single day in our lives. I am incredibly grateful for you, readers of my blog. Thank you for making me feel that what I have to say has worth and is of interest to read. Every act of kindness is an act of love and in the end, love is really what it is all about.