All around me…is life.
Almost daily I am up before 6:30 to go f or my m
orning run or my daily torture, as I sometimes call it. Just getting myself to put one foot in front of the ot her
is often a challenge…but once I am off and running, it’ s impo
ssible to ignore the life around me. On weekends there is less traffic, and it’s easier for me actually see the life surrounding me…in the changing leaves, the fog that hovers over the ground, the deer I often see as I run the last stretch of Carpenter Park.
On the other days, I experience life in a whole different way…in the form of
the hustle and bustle of rushed mornings. As I run, I pass countless cars driven by people in their usual morning hurry, chatting on their phones, sending that illegal-while-driving text, touching up make-up.
It’s all part of life.
I’ll get home and shower, and the rest of my day is filled with a different kind of life…the amazing, wonder-filled world of a sixteen month-old.
Oh, How. She. Lives.
Life, to her, is exploring every nook and cranny of her surroundings…of finding joy in the simplest things and giggling gleefully in a sound that is just perfect.
To her, life is being…completely…and it is beautiful.
I am blessed to have these days with her.
..to live them with her.
While most of my day is consumed with my girl, I live in other ways, too…by being a wife, a friend, a puller of espresso shots…and most importantly, a follower of my F
ather.
It is in each of these things that I find Life…purpose, being, existence.
And in all of this life around me, the Life I am most thankful for comes through my Father’s Love…the Life that came in the form of a tiny baby so many years ago.
It is through the Life of my Savior, Jesus Christ…and his death…that I may Live, too.
Not just here on earth, but in heaven someday…for eternity.
Praying that each of you have found that Life for which I am so thankful today.
this is beautiful. thanks for the reminder of life, mel