The ordinary

Being a single parent has it's days when you just want to throw your hands up and scream, I can't do this anymore!  You are overwhelmed with everything that needs to get done around you....  Then you pray for strength to get through bed time and enjoy your kids for the time that you have them, because what else can you really do?  Then something amazing happens, a random solicitor knocks on your door and it turns out they belong to your church and you talk for awhile and they tell you about National Night Out around the corner and it is just what you and your kids need to make it through the night and finish the day on a strong, positive note.  Welcome to my night tonight.  This is exactly what happened, and now the dirt is washed off, and the boys are tucked under the covers and sound asleep.

 I found this quote on another blog, I think it's true. Enjoy!


The extraordinary, the amazing, the phenomena 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.