As you know if you read this blog, Serenity and I made several trips to Kansas City for her radiation treatments this month. (Pesky cancer!) The trip took about ten hours each time, so we had lots of time to talk and solve all the problems of the world. (You are welcome.)
One afternoon, we drove down 119th Street looking for our favorite lunch spot. The parking lot had been so crowded the week before that we circled it three times looking for an empty spot. Finally, we gave up and hulked like a Titanium vulture behind a car that appeared to be making exit plans. Even then, it was a cold and windy walk from our captured parking spot to the warmth of the vestibule.
On this trip, though, we pulled into the lot and drove straight into a dandy spot just across from the front door. Really, you would have thought one of us had won an Oscar we were so thrilled.
We grinned and congratulated one another, and then I shook my head. “It doesn’t take much to make us happy.”
My beautiful, brave, winning-over-cancer-one-more-time daughter smiled back and said, “Well, it’s a good thing it doesn’t!”
So, here is hoping you find that same attitude today. May you be blessed with the perfect party shoes. Or matching socks in the dryer. Or a two-year old who actually uses the potty. Whatever your little thing is today, may it bless your soul and remind you of the One who handles all things great and small.
Between this, the two Psalms for today, and my daily “enouragement” reading plan, I’m convinced today will have to be a day of small miracles. Praying for the ability to see them and not look past them. The ability to see God’s plan and not be so busy looking for my own plans to come about. Thank you for such a good and timely word.
Thanks for your encouragement!
Kathy this article about the little things hit home with me today. Thanks for being inspired to write it. You have a God given talent!
Thank you, dear Carol! I’m praying you have loads of little things piling up to big blessings right now.
I love this! I, too, am so happy about the little things in life…like staying in my pajama pants all day, because my administrators realized it was dangerously cold for our students to be out in this weather. I watched “Selling New York” where apartments with a view go for millions of dollars, finished reading a book while wrapped in a quilt my mother in law made in my recliner by the wood stove, graded 13 journal entries, organized my binder for my night college class, watched a comedy movie with the hubby, and cooked. Life is good and it is just 5 p.m. The evening stretches before me.
I.Am.Not. Jealous. (Repeat to myself until I believe it)
:).
Yep. That was a good day! I love this post. Really, it can’t take much – you gotta SIEZE the good.
Did I spell seize wrong?!
No matter. Let’s just grab the moment no matter how we spell it!