I’m hungry, so this entry is probably going to be short, because my stomach is driving me to do something other than sitting here at the computer tap-tap-tapping away.
I said yesterday to several people, plus I left it on my ‘status’ message on Facebook for all the world (or all my Facebook friends) to see, that this was going to be a good week. I just KNEW it… and here we are, one day further and great things are happening.
I received a response to an email I’d sent to someone, and not just a response, but a really positive response that means great things. That made my day, but then a little earlier, as I was responding to an email from a friend, Marcel came and said that he had something important that he wanted to tell me.
I honestly figured it was about the soccer, or maybe what he wanted me to make for his lunch, but I almost fell off my chair when he said to me that after he submitted his final project for school “which is coming up soon” that he’s decided he’s going to stop smoking.
The company he works for offers classes to help with stopping, plus our insurance also covers different programs to help with stopping, but the fact that he’s at the point now where he’s ready to stop, and start ‘living’ and being healthy makes me want to jump for joy!
I’m allergic to cigarette smoke, so Marcel doesn’t smoke in our home, nor does he smoke around me, but I worry about the negative aspects of smoking and what it’s doing to his health.
While we were home for the holidays, Hein (Desere’s husband), lost his dad to cancer- it wasn’t lung cancer, but the man had smoked for many, many years, and I believe that it hit a little too close to home for Marcel. As much as I hated that Hein lost his dad, I am happy that something positive came out of that very sad situation- and that was Marcel coming to the realization that this isn’t what he wants for his life any longer.
He’s asked me to help him when the time comes, and we talked quite a bit about it this morning, but he’s already decided that he would like to have some lollypops in the house to help him get through that quitting stage. I’ll make sure he has cases of lollypops if that’s what he wants.
I told him several times how proud I was of him, and that I knew he’d feel better once he got there, and that he would get there. Please keep him in your prayers, I know he’s going to need them, but I have every faith that he can, and will do this.
Yes, my friends, good things are happening.
My Gratitude List for March 23, 2009.
Today I’m Grateful For:
- Marcel setting a time frame to stop smoking.
- The email I received earlier today.
- Climbing 13 flights of stairs today. YEAH!
- A new found sense of determination.
- LIFE!
So take a moment and tell me something good that’s happening in your life. I know there’s something.