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Hey lovely friends! Thanks for coming back and once again participating in 2 On Tuesday. Last week was so much fun! I had a blast hearing about your pet peeves. I identified so much with so many of you. 
Thanksgiving is this week, and I know we all are thankful for so many different things. Today I want to know:
Why are you thankful for blogging?
Specially, what have you gained from blogging? How has blogging changed your life for the better?
After I had Cooper, I suffered from severe post-partum depression. I wouldn’t talk about it to anyone – at all – for the longest time, until I broke down one night last spring and wrote a post about the way I was feeling. I was completely lost and alone, and so many of you reached out to me with prayers and offers of support. You gave me the courage to seek help, and I feel as if I’m living a different life these days. I didn’t realize how dark my world was until I began to see light once again. I’m happy and well, and I contribute that to the love and support of my blog friends.
Based on your encouragement, I swallowed my pride and admitted my feelings were out of control. I confessed to my husband that I wasn’t feeling normal. I went to the doctor. I got on medication. I asked for help, and you gave it to me.
Some time after I wrote that post, I came home from work feeling so overwhelmed and defeated. I felt so dark – I felt hopeless, like my life didn’t have meaning. I didn’t think I had anyone in the world who cared about me, and I confess to you I was thinking thoughts I’m ashamed to admit even now.
That day, as I walked up to my porch, I saw an Edible Arrangement from a friend. She wanted me to know she was thinking of me. I walked inside, sat down on the floor, and cried. I cried because I felt hope. My joy had been stolen for so long that I didn’t think anyone cared if I existed, and God had shown me that someone did care. I think that was a turning point in my journey, that realization. People loved me. I mattered.
Y’all, I can look back now and see how far gone I was. I honestly think had I not written that post, received that encouragement, and saw my doctor that I wouldn’t be here with you today.
So thank you. Thank YOU. You, the person reading this post. You’ve changed my life for the better. Thank you for reading. Thank you for supporting me, encouraging me, challenging me, and praying for me. You are such a blessing in my life.
I hope I am the same for you.
I am thankful for you.
9 comments:
I'm so glad you're one of my bloggy friends!
Who doesn't love Shawn? She's a sweetheart and always so thoughtful.
Great post, my sweet! I'm so very thankful for being able to count you among my friends!
I am thrilled you are feeling yourself again. I am also thrilled that " someone's" act of kindness was so powerful for you. You just never know what the result will be when you act on your gut and listen to that voice in your head, or as I prefer to think of it that whisper from God, I'm glad something as seemingly silly as an Edible Arrangments did such good things for you.
I am thankful for you my friend and I do love you!
I love this post! I blog just because it's fun and a journal for me to look back on one day. It wasn't until I started 2 on Tuesday that I even knew other people besides family read my blog. So thank you for helping me meet people through blogging.
I recently wrote about this subject.
Actually, the post was about why I blog. But I talked about why I continue to do so and how peeps in Blogville are more supportive than my IRL friends.
Like, some of my IRL friends have never commented in the least about my father passing away. That really hurts. Especially one person I thought was a really good friend. When she emailed me to tell me her mom had died, I made sure to respond to her right away and pass on my sympathies. I told her my dad died and have not heard from her since. You'd think she could've found 2 minutes since the beginning of July to call or email me or something.
I love that writing is such a cathartic thing for so many people.
amazing post.. very personal and powerful.. I have been by your blog every now and then.. I do think you are amazing.. Glad you are here to bring hope to all of us...
That is what blogging is all about.
How wonderful that you talked about it and got help. For me blogging changed my life. I have COPD and don't leave home a lot. I have made so many friends and my days go by so quickly since I started blogging.
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