It’s in sunlight streaming around well-loved patio chairs. It’s in rough hard-working hands building tables. It’s in cheerful mockingbird trills and chatter. It’s in good morning kisses. It ripples right through a puppy dog as she drops her favorite green rope at your feet. Shared adventures sing of it and gritty sand and shells do too. Bounteous blooms and ice water brimming. Smooth-inked gelly pens and kind words gracing my day. It’s in water splashing and waving across a swimming pool. Forty notes hidden all over the house by my dearie daughter. Stripes and polka dots, feathers and fibers. And a whole world spilling full of so many exquisite details.
It’s new mercies and faithfulness and love and intentional design all wrapped up and gifted to me each day of these past forty years.
It’s in each new breath. Lungs fill. Exhale. Fill again.
Without thought, I breathe. Each inhale and exhale whispering life.
New mercies. Old mercies. Blessing. Hope. Faithfulness. Grace. Steadfastness. Gift. Joy. Happiness. Abiding. Aspiring.
These words, attributes, all start to ebb and flow until the edges blur and I can’t find where one ends and another begins.
They’re in a life of ten years, of thirty, of forty, of sixty or seventy. Each breath, a grace I take for granted.
I’ve only just heard of a family who’s had incurable lung cancer dropped right in the midst of their everyday life. Two evenings ago, my man read me the story of another man who told of moments he had missed and intentional living he does today because of this life lesson we can’t undo. And recently two aged saints in our acquaintance walked right on home to glory!
Hug life tightly. Hold it loosely. A paradox, if ever there was one.
My Father is faithful. I believe it, even when I question it.
Because, Jesus.
Psalm 63:3-4 My lips will glorify You because Your faithful love is better than life. So, I will bless you as long as I live; at Your name I will lift up my hands!
♫♪♫Great is Thy Faithfulness! Great is Thy Faithfulness! Morning by morning, new mercies I see. All I have needed, Thy hand has provided. Great is Thy Faithfulness, Lord, unto me. ♫♪
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Always a pleasure to read your words. Keep on sharing. 😊
Thank you so much!
It brings me such joy when I see in my email that you have a new post! Such lovely words and an awesome reminder to see the beauty and glory in every day.
Thank-you for your kind words, Debbie. I do appreciate knowing that you are blessed. There’s a certain vulnerability in sharing words and heart. And I can struggle with hoping my words can inspire someone besides only myself and getting too caught up in that, yet at the same time it blesses me a lot to know it did matter to someone else and encouraged their day. So, thank-you so much! Have a wonderful week.
what a wonderful post
Thank-you Lori! You bless me often with your kind words. Have a wonderful week!