I am so grateful for good news I just got. I broke down in sobs realizing just how much weight I have been carrying over this. via /r/gratitude

My wife, kids and I have been facing a terrible crisis for several months now. Not to go into detail but it threatened all the things I hold most dear. We’ve been waiting for a decision regarding this issue for months. Longer than we were promised an answer would take. Twenty minutes ago I got the answer finally. It was the best answer in the world. Exactly what we hoped for and needed.

For these months I have been praying, hoping, fighting fear and anxiety and doing every spiritual practice I could to try and hold it together. Once I got the answer I called my wife and let her know and then I just broke into sobs. I just cried out “thank you, thank you. I was so scared,” over and over. It hit me with full force how much I have been holding in and how much this fear has weighed on me. Oh, my God, I am so happy. So relieved. I’m crying again just writing these words now. I don’t know when I’ve ever been this grateful and relieved of such a heavy burden all at once. I just realize now how much it has been crushing me every day for months as I tried to just wait it out without collapsing in fear. God gave me a message that it would be ok and that it would come out the way we needed but I am ashamed to say there were so many moments I still doubted and didn’t trust that. And yet it came out exactly as words in the deepest part of me said it would. Thank you!!!!!