Thursday, November 17, 2011

Two posts in one day!!!

I'm stealing a post because its where my thoughts have been so often lately...


Taken from http://www.lifeingraceblog.com/

But what about all those ordinary days? Where is God then?

He always chooses the ordinary things to do his greatest work.

He chose bread to feed us. Water to wash us. A baby to save us.

He is no despiser of the small days.

It is in them that we see the key to life.

Not in falling in love but in loving everyday, with clean socks and warm soup.

Not in that one blissful day of childbirth but in the birth of each day, one a time, where the daily routine teaches us to depend on our Father, who has made no provision for tomorrow—but only today, in this daily bread.

Perhaps this thing I’ve come to dread—-this daily drudgery—-is in fact my greatest teacher, in disguise.

Teaching me to live in this moment. With these children. And this sacred work. It’s really all there is.

Today is the day of salvation.

So, I hold on tightly to little hands. And I stir the soup. And I fold the towels.

And I say thank you for this work.

And for this blessed ordinary day—where grace and mercy rain down and turn water into wine, drudergy into vocation, and curse into blessing.

THIS is what I have been doing since my last post in April....

Growing, delivering, feeding, cuddling, chasing, and keeping these 3 monkeys safe and healthy each day!! Perhaps someday soon I'll get back to more frequent postings...