I am grateful...I truly am

After I published yesterday's post, I got to thinking. I sound ungrateful! If I came across that post, I would think, "Gee, what a lucky person. Sounds like she's got an okay job." Well, I do have an okay job, and I'm grateful to have it. Especially since my spouse has no job right now. Because of my job we were able to get health insurance and not have to pay into Cobra. I'm also grateful because we are relatively healthy. Although we do not have an emergency fund, we do have money, albeit retirement money, to get through about a year. I just pray his unemployment doesn't last that long.

This brings me to the assistant manager at my part-time job. A couple of weeks ago she and I were closing together. She mentioned that she was going with her husband to the hospital the next day. He was having tests. They suspected cancer. She also told me that her mother-in-law has cancer. This past weekend I asked how her husband was doing. She said the tests came back positive and that her mother-in-law was having surgery at the end of the week. In addition, there is no head of store manager, so she is in charge. She has two teenagers and is very busy with their schedules too. She said the she and her husband had to cancel a trip to Miami this weekend because of his mother's surgery. She appeared very, very stressed (as you can imagine). I just wanted to give her a hug. I told her that I have good, positive thoughts for her and her family. I think she needs a spa month, not just a spa day.

There is a poem--I don't know how the whole poem goes, but it starts with I cried because I had no shoes 'til I met the man who had no feet. That sums it all up for me.