Reasons to Smile

Yesterday I had a taste of the deep, dark, slippery slope of depression. Not wanting to move, having no motivation to do much of anything, moping around the house like someone just ran over my dog, wanting only to curl up and go to sleep just to make it go away. I got a taste of depression, and that's all I want. I'm a fighter, and as bad as things get, I refuse to give in. So today I have woken up with a new desire to live life to the fullest. A new desire to take life one day at a time and enjoy every moment for what it is and what it is teaching me. I intend to search for reasons to smile, reasons to be happy, reasons to be full of joy in a time that seems all but joyless. So, I hereby start my new blog project. I am going to purposefully look for reasons to smile, and document them here, if nothing else than to prove to myself that God has filled this time in my life with joy. Some of my reasons are sure to be shallow and other may accidentally reach new depths and by no means will they be in order of importance. I will simply post "as the spirit moves" and hopefully this can become a place where you and I can find reasons to smile.