"My Supports"

 The word support to me means giving and helping a person to overcome challenges and obstacles, never expecting anything in return, bu just basking in the joy that you made a differences in some one elses life, waiting for the unexpected to happen for you one day.

                                      " In the end everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not the end yet
                                                                          Ferando Sabino

I would like to share some of the factors I feel that are supportive in my daily environment.
1. The environment itself, which includes my surroundings, my family, the neighborhood in which I live, my job, and all my life experiences which I encounter everyday.

2. My physical environment which includes staying healthy and stress free. My social environment which includes my family, and other people who I come into contact with .

3. My culture beliefs, my attitude, and behavior all also part of the factors in my environment. The old saying do unto others as you would have them to do unto you, for me is true. I try to always have a positive outlook on life, and to try to be supportive of others. The little things in life makes me happy; Keeping my grandbaby brings joy, talking to my children about their day, ot just giving a smile to someone just because I felt that they needed it.

               "When you get into a tight place and everyhing goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn". ~Harriett Beecher Stowe.                       
  The benefits for me in having people who support me is something I never want to lose. I can say I need support in every thing I do and need to accomplish. My husband is the best support system in my life. He always give encourgement and advice when I feel I am at the last rope, and it gets hard to climb farther and fartther up the ladder. On my job I need support from my co-workers. Working with children on a daily basis is hard sometimes. When it seems as though you have done all that you can do to make a difference, there is always that ram in hte bush, that someone who comes along and gives that missing piece of the puzzle that you need. Support is very important to me. I feel that as long as we live we all need someone to support us, and we need to support others.

Some of the challenges I feel that I would encounter in life without daily support, especially as part of my environment is, I would just be a wonder, How to do things? What if's? and If I had done it this way, would it have been better?. So, challenges I feel makes us stronger, and more capable of taking on the next challenge.  I often reflect back on a statement I read one Sunday that was listed on a church program.

                       The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 105 what happens to us and 905 how we responds to it".~Charles R. Swindroll                            
Support is a neccesity, and a component of life; without it could we survive? Think about it.