Thank you for being a part of my blog and sharing this writer’s journey with me. In addition to prose and poetry, I will also be posting shorter content, such as a poignant thought designed for inspiration. These will be original quotes that I hope might speak to you in some way.

Recently I was having one of those days when I was feeling loss. A close family member knew I had been a bit blue and called that evening to check on me. My reply was, “Bad day, great life.” It just popped out, but she said, “I love your perspective.”

Perspective is paramount in living a joyful life. Negative, bad, even disastrous things will always happen to us and around us, and there is no escaping dealing with the pain and loss those things cause, but we cannot let them define our responses or our outlooks.

For me, Christ comforts and helps me maintain a healthy perspective: I both look forward to an eternal existence and appreciate and embrace the life given to me in the present in spite of whatever current circumstances might be.

Love and hugs always! Keri