Good day, everybody! I hope you are well.
I’m sorry to be a little late, but I have been sick more lately due to the changing weather. Although Fall is a beautiful season, it’s also a miserable season for me and so many others. Then again, I have met CFS patients who have said they feel better in the Fall than in Summer.

On the other hand, the Holidays are coming up, so better days are coming. They are joyful and benevolent days, days filled with love and hope.

This past Summer has been a Summer of learning for me. I have written about this before, but this has been on my mind a lot lately. I had to take a long break from social media to get myself together and focus on my own life, specifically my spiritual and emotional growth. I had to focus on my mental health and on God. I had to take time and smell the roses and get the material world out of my head for a while. Of course, growth always comes at a price. The price is change, and many times, change costs us something. It cost me a couple of long time friends; I knew it would.

I also learned just how much my community loves and cares about me. In the midst of all this, several of my community friends made it clear to me they were not going to let anything bad happen to me. This made me cry. I thought I was all alone in the world, because I never had any help with anything. I was always on my own, and I always felt guilty about reaching out and asking for help with things.

Well, not anymore. A dear family member put his arm around me and told me, it’s ok to ask for help. He told me they loved me, and family sticks together. I didn’t find that to be be true in my immediate family, but I was lucky to find that in my extended family, who I now consider my true family. There is a difference between family and relatives. You share DNA with your relatives, but you share love and comradery with your family. In my case, my family includes my community friends as well. They may not be blood, but they sure are family.

So, after a less than happy June, July and August, September, October is turning out to be a much happier time. It is true, the best lessons are the hardest learned. It is also true genuinely good people will reach out to you in time of need and let you know you will be cared for, and you will not be let down by them. I have never experienced that in life before now. It was truly touching. I’ll never forget it.

Well, that’s about it for now. Have a wonderful week, everybody!
Beckie

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