It’s Only the Good in Thorne’s World today.

I’m simply bursting with GOOD today!!!
Nearest and dearest to my heart; my daughter got a job!!! And it looks like a good job!! Now, in this rough economy a job is good enough news, but this is extra good. Any of you who have read here over the last couple of years know that last year she lost her beautiful son, our precious lil Pharoah to SIDS. The worst part of my own grief has been for my sweet daughter who lost her only child. She has had an incredibly hard year of grieving and depression, and has struggled mightily to pull herself from the depths of sorrow.
So this job is more than good; it’s hope.
Hope that she will find herself again or even anew through working out in the world again where people can mirror her beauty back to her that she may again see it in herself. Hope that her self esteem and self worth will grow as she remembers who she is somehow around/ in spite of/ in addition to the mother of a dead child, and perhaps learns who she can be and becomes able to integrate her loss into a life that is bigger than only that loss.
Hope. Hope is good.
And on top of that (which is really the best!), it’s a good job! Entry level, but room for advancement (and my baby always advances; employers tend to find themselves dependent upon her rather quickly!) Dental, medical and paid holidays after 90 days, and paid management training! Woot!
Go, baby, go. Momma loves you and believes in you!

So here’s the concept for Only The Good Friday. Shelly at This Eclectic Life says:

We are living in some pretty negative times, aren’t we? You can’t pick up a newspaper or turn on the television without hearing more bad news about the economy, the war, the stock market, the political candidates. I think that many of us are living in a state of fear (though I’m in the state of Texas).

Fear feeds upon itself. It’s like a contagious virus. I’m tired of adding to it. I want to start another kind of “virus.”

You see, I think that optimism can be contagious, too. If we consciously try to look at the good in the world around us, it will become easier to see.

Thorne’s words on Only the Good:

I really like this idea. Any of you regulars who have peeked in on Thorne’s World once in awhile over the last year know that between my political activism and blogging, and some pretty heavy personal life stuff, I kinda crashed. Well; no “kinda” about it. The world and life pretty much kicked my ass into a sever depression that I have been trying to pull out of for the last several months. It’s rough for me once I hit the blog, because I seem to have gotten caught up in everything that’s wrong, and when I check in online I still see so much that outrages or upsets me that I have a bit of a hard time keeping to my resolve to try to stay a little calm and happy and out of the outrage and anger and sadness. Shelly’s meme is so GOOD for me!! No matter what’s going on, on Fridays at least I can say to myself “Turn it around, woman! What can you say-think-write-feel-do today that is good?! Positive! Hopeful!!”
Won’t you join us?? Help spread the good love for Only The Good Friday!