Savoring The Ordinary!

Being sick always makes me crave regular or not-so-regular day-to-day Duties Beauties

...like manure-scooping(yup!) on Saturday afternoon
after hubby came back from a particularly draining trip
 and even though he worked circles around me (there's a knack to forking!:)
he said the company was as much appreciated as the 'help'☺

That was Saturday before Sunday-evening flu hit!

Lying in bed listening to life at a distance
rouses a craving for the delicious flavor of 'simple' or 'normal'

Give me a mat full of shoes to trip over

Grant me the honor to take out the trash

Laundry is life’s five-star favor of labor

Give me a floor to scrub, dishes to wash

I love the crest of new day all a-quiver

With raindrop rivers or snow-sequined fists

After a bubble of trouble I savor

The heaven-flavor of plain to-do lists

Show me the long way home; I’m in no hurry

Find me a field full of furrowed furlough

Let me look longer at trees once a-flurry

Still full of glory yet stripped of leaf-show

Music is more than the striking of harp-strings

You should hear heart-strings, after laughter’s pause

My, but a moment takes on sacred meaning

After whatever yesterday’s woe was

Give me a bowl full of dinner-in-waiting

Morning so crisp you could bite it in two

Give me the goodness of mercy creating

Humble thanksgiving… after the flu

© Janet Martin

 "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."-Psalm 30:5

My thoughts and prayers are with those still waiting for 'the morning' of joy.

I have a cousin (Wayne Martin) who suffers greatly because of MS 

He is a  husband and father...will you pray for him/them?

For hope/healing however God wills...

I just received a prayer request this evening for a young mom moved to hospice tonight!

 Will you pray too that God would be real to them in their hour of great need?

Up the road a family is adapting to the normal of one less among them....

their 'joy in the morning' feels far away.

...and we all have our own list of names we could add!

Let's never take for granted, present-joy!