What Next?

So Eric calls me this morning - well after he should have been at work - to tell me that he's been in a car accident. Seriously. Not his fault - some lady pulled out in front of him and clipped him but he wasn't hurt, the car wasn't seriously damaged and the police gave her the ticket. And she was even insured!!! So despite the fact that our luck doesn't seem to be on a winning streak right now, I decided to be grateful that the accident wasn't worse and that Eric isn't in a hospital right now on life support or something.

I'm trying to keep some perspective on the trials in my life over the past few months. Sometimes it's easy to sit down and enjoy a little pity party for one - and I definitely do that, but most of the time I try to keep my chin up and look for whatever Heavenly Father is trying to teach me through these problems. I've read other people's blogs and I through them I get a peak at what other people are going through and it reminds me to be grateful for my particular trials - and I never thought that would be something I would say, but it's true. More and more, I can see how my problems are refining me as I go through them and then get to the other side of them. I think I've grown more in the last year than I have for a long time and I know that wouldn't have happened without three job changes, one cheating partner, a blown transmission and now a car accident - and that's just the big stuff! Knowing what I know now, I don't even think I'd trade those events because they're now apart of who I am and I think I'm a better person for them. I'm not saying that I'd like to have some more problems come my way - I'd really like a reprieve but until then, I'm hoping to make the best of things.