flowers

This week we have been learning about how family deal with stress!

I feel like this week was totally dedicated to my family and me, may be others may feel that way also. As I started to think of events in our life that affected our family only a few events came to mind though I knew we had a lot of things that always seemed to go wrong, but as I kept pondering and thinking I realized that we had so much going on since way back then. I started to get emotional because I hadn't really put much thought into them especially after the mission being so busy trying to stay on top of things I remembered how it was that I was able to change my life for the better. It wasn't the worst life, but it wasn't the best. Our family has had many opportunities to progress and move forward but their always seems to be something that just bumps all of us back. When I realized that I could be that bump moving our lives backwards or forward I needed to make a decision and I don't know if with the drama already going on I would've decided to come back to church and go to school etc. I'm grateful for the things that I have witnessed in my family not because they hurt and were hard but because they helped me become what I am becoming everyday. Their are things in family that can pull us apart but if we are aware of what actions to take our life could be so much easier, but that is how life is we don't know what is going to happen and sometimes we are not prepared, but that is how we learn. I look back on how maybe things could've been different had we stayed active or had we just stopped to think what should we do to make things better instead of going through the motions and just doing things. I am grateful to be able to look at my family now with a better understanding of family systems and see what things I can do to help and things we can anticipate together.