Success driven by fear

I don't normally talk much about what i'm doing in life especially on the professional side mostly because it's a bitter sweet journey. I'm not there yet but i will be very very soon... what matters is i got this very stubborn... so soooo stubborn i don't know where i got it from. The never give up attitude. Failures? Hundreds... Success? A good few, but im getting there.

Dear God,

Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you have bestowed on my life.

Gracious God, in the busy-ness of my day, I sometimes forget to stop to thank you for all that is good in my life.

My blessings are many and my heart is filled with gratefulness for the gift of living, for the ability to love and be loved, for the opportunity to see the everyday wonders of creation, for sleep and water, for a mind that thinks and a body that feels.

I thank you, too, for those things in my life that are less than I would hope them to be. Things that seem challenging, unfair, or difficult. When my heart feels stretched and empty, and pools of tears form in my weary eyes, still I rejoice that you are as near to me as my next breath and that in the midst of turbulence, I am growing and learning.

In the silence of my soul, I thank you most of all for your unconditional and eternal love.
Amen