Happy Monday! I hope you all are having a great start to your week. I was trying to figure out what to post on this beautiful Monday and I came across this e-mail. It is from a daily e-mail that my mother receives titled "Today's Gift."
Don't overlook the wonder of the ordinary.
The extraordinary, the amazing, the phenomenon are daily glorified in the movies, the news, and on television. Our senses become bombarded. We become addicted to drama. The only things that get our attention are the big, catastrophic, knee-jerking events.
Take a closer look at your life, your everyday world, and the people and activities in it. If it were all taken from you in one moment, what would you miss? What sights, what sounds, what smells? Would you miss the view from your kitchen window? If you were never to see that scene again, would you nostalgically reminisce about it, wishing you could see it one more time, remembering how beautiful it was, and how much that familiar sight comforted you in your daily life?
What about those toys strewn about or the baby crying because he's hungry or wet? What about the sounds of the city you live in as it comes to life each morning? Or how about how your child smells after her bath? Or when she comes in cold from playing in the snow?
What about the way your friend smiles, or that little thing he says all the time that's not funny but he thinks it is, so you laugh?
Look closely at the ordinary in your life. While you're being grateful, don't forget to express pure, sheer gratitude for how beautiful the ordinary really is. We can easily overlook the ordinary, take it for granted. The sun rises and sets, the seasons come and go, and we forget how beautiful and sensational the familiar really is.
God thank you for every detail of my ordinary, everyday world.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Jason was gone this weekend fishing with guy friends and there were so many things I missed - and he was only gone for 3 nights! Absence really does make the heart grow fonder.
What ordinary things in your life would you miss if it were suddenly gone?
I would miss Murphy dragging his blankets out of his room in the mornings, Jason saying "Top of the Morning to You" as he wakes up while I am preparing coffee & lunches, sipping coffee and listening to the morning talk radio, being greeted by Jason and Murphy when I come home, late night chats with my husband before we drift off to sleep, rare moments when Murphy will sit still and let me love on him, dinners on the screened in porch, all of the laughter that fills our house...and so many more tiny details in my days that I just really cherish and am truly grateful for. I thank God everyday for my husband, my puppy, my life.
Have you thanked Him lately? You should.
Be inspired!
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