What’s in a Day?

   We get up each day and go about whatever our day entails.  Maybe we go to work, maybe we are retired.  Maybe we spend our day in an office, maybe in a factory.  Some face danger in their day as police officers, fire fighters or perhaps military members.  Some are stay at home dads or moms.  We each go about our day, usually in a routine manner with little time to notice what else is happening in our world.

   Even on the weekends our days are many times planned.  We have to take care of all the to-do’s that get left behind during the week.  We plan shopping, trips, visits and other things to fill our Saturdays and usually our Sundays.  Hopefully we take at least some time on Sunday to honor and worship our God.

  But what of everything that occurs each day that we rarely notice.  Since I am now retired from the work-a-day life I’ve come to appreciate many things that I never seemed to even see before.  As I eat breakfast I look out over our yard and watch as the squirrels play, chasing each other up and down trees and through the yard.  Occasionally there is a rabbit eating some of the corn we put out for the squirrels and apparently for  rabbits as well.  I see the birds eating at the feeders we have in our yard; finches mostly but also the pair of cardinals that show up each year.  Hummingbirds hover right outside the kitchen window eating from their feeder.  All of this beautiful activity gets my day off to a great start and makes me conscious of the many blessings God has bestowed on me.

   We all have so much to be thankful for yet we seem to ignore most of it in our busy world.  We sometimes think of a small baby's cry as a noisy interruption rather than the blessing of new life.  Our spouse can become part of our routine driven day rather than the soulmate given by God to help us navigate this earthly existence.  Our own children are sometimes considered a bother rather than the result of the love between a man and woman fulfilling the will of God to be fruitful and multiply.  Even Sunday worship can become just part of our day rather than an opportunity to acknowledge God and thank Him for His many gifts.

   There are so many blessings yet we rarely take the time to notice them.  We focus so much on our worldly concerns that we miss the beauty and glory of the world God has given us.  We need to take the time to see those many blessings.  Some may seem simple like the song of a bird or the new bloom on the rose bush.  Some are incredible such as the majesty of a sunrise or sunset.  Artists have forever tried and failed to duplicate the colors that God puts on display for us.  Some blessings such as the Word of God and the sacrifice of our Lord are the source of eternal life.

   Noticing the small blessings helps us to recognize the many greater blessings our God gives us each and every day.  Take the time to notice them and you will enrich your life.