I'm thankful for....

My hubby was out of town last night on business and on those nights I just don't sleep well. So last night I purposly stayed up late thinking okay, I'll be so tired, I'll sleep. So it was after midnight before I went to bed and it took a little while before I went to sleep. Well, at 1:45 (seems like I had just dozed off), I heard this "beep", another thirty seconds later, another "beep", same thing thirty more seconds. I woke up to realize that the smoke detector battery in our bedroom decided to "beep" me in the middle of the night. Why is it that it's always in the middle of the night when those things decide to die? LOL!! So it's obvious that thing is not going to stop anytime soon. So I'm 5'1" (on a good day/LOL!) and realize I've got to get up and take this battery out (dh is 6'2" so he could easily reach it straight from the floor). I know I'm not only going to have to get up but go get the step stool and still hope that I can reach it even then. So I make up my mind to do it (while half-way consideing just moving to the couch! LOL!!) I get the step-stool and change it and try to dooze back off to sleep. However, as I'm laying there having this pity party about my sleep being disturbed the though comes to me about how blessed I am to be in a nice warm house that even has a smoke detector! It was eight degrees here last night. When I was out running errands yesterday I saw 3 different sets of people that appeared to be homeless and worried about them yesterday because the wind chill was so extreme. One was an elderly man with his dog. So that all came back to me and I really had to jerk myself back into reality last night/this AM when I realized I could easily get back in my nice warm bed and go back to sleep, knowing we had heat, blankets, and smoke detectors to keep us safe. Sorry for rambling. I just forget what my blessings are sometimes! Bonita

Thanks for sharing Bonita! I'm so glad that the Spirit prompts us to remember what we have. I immediately thought of Randall when I began to read your post. Smoke alarms are terribly annoying at times, but boy, I wouldn't want to be without! Have a great day! - Carolyn