Sometimes there are little things!
I could pretend that you’ve missed multiple blog posts throughout the summer – my tiny gems that have not yet been uncovered…WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN??? BUT, I suppose you might start to sift back through our blog and find nothing since, well, I didn’t even want to look at when the last post might have been – so let’s just move on!
We’ve had a great, busy, fun summer (so the blog suffered a little? you say) and the blog suffered a little. Partly because there was always something going on and partly because sometimes you just get a little writer’s block – for a few straight months! So, I’ll try to chop up that block today…hey, don’t worry, miracles do still happen!
I was wondering today why it seems that miracles are sometimes not going on. I’ve spent a lot of time this summer in prayer for Rejoice!, for my family, for me, for people around me (and I spent a little bit of time praying for the girl at Burger King who seemed really angry that I was coming through the drive-through a few days ago). I guess sometimes I get a little down wanting, desperately needing, some major miracle to occur!
- You know, a check in the mail for insurance premiums that I over paid – instead, ”just the bill ma’am, please pay the bill”…hrrrumph!
- A relative (one I never knew existed) has passed on to her heavenly reward and, yes, has left her BMW (mint condition – because she really didn’t drive much) to – ME!!!!! (Allowing me to junk my jeep, that keeps eating up my insurance premium money) No, no notices in the mail today of unexpected blessings, no child who has decided to never get me riled, and to do his homework without being asked and to clean house everyday after school without expecting a dime…no, so far today, everything’s just “normal”.
Actually, though, come to think of it…my jeep decided it didn’t want to run anymore just hours BEFORE I needed to head out on the road for a destination a couple of hours away…allowing me NOT to be stranded, a woman, alone on a dark interstate…
and the other day I dropped my favorite baking dish, hard, onto my porcelain sink, and it bounced but didn’t break…
and the mean girl at Burger King actually gave me my food and nothing was wrong with it…(at least, I didn’t notice anything, oh gross)
and the 3rd air conditioner repair man who visited, said we didn’t actually need to replace the entire air conditioner (like the other two) but that for $140 he could have us back up and running (thus stopping the sweat from running down my face)…
and my dog almost ate the cat…but at the last moment the cat zigged and zagged just right…and was free (1 life down, 8 to go)
I guess if I really took stock, I could find loads of small things that could have been disastrous, or at the very least, annoying that either didn’t happen or happened in the best way possible. I guess if I really think about it, there are so many things that I don’t even notice going on around me that are classified as tiny miracles. So many times I hear, “wow, you sure were lucky”! Actually, I’m not a lucky person at all (never have won anything come to think of it)…but I am God’s child. And I firmly believe that He watches over every aspect of my life in ways that I can never imagine…handles situations that I may not even know are lurking. So for today, I choose to count the many miracles, small though they may be, as evidence that I’m not muddling through life on my own, unattended. God is present in the little things – maybe He knows how fragile I am and how devastated I’d have been if my dish had been broken or if I hadn’t gotten my Whopper with cheese, without tomatoes!!! Either way, I am loved, and He cares for my psyche!!! Thank you Lord for the small things, the little miracles taking place every day…
Ha!! I knew it! There’s another one – you are reading a new blog post!!! Remember, there are the little things!!
It might be fun to hear the tiny miracles you’ve seen – some of them are likely not even tiny but huge – so if you feel like adding your miracles – feel free! But by all means, take a moment to think about them (even the silly ones!).
Until another miracle comes along (er, blog post)…
Maria
