Tuesday, November 9, 2010

a child's joy

Remember when you were a child, how excieting life was everyday?  I remember that feeling.  It was like Christmas morning almost every day.  It was things like: tomorrow we're going out into the 'woods' to the raspberry patch to pick raspberries;  tomorrow we're going to walk down the street to the old 'haunted house' and see it; tomorrow we're going to play 'Barbie's'.  These things were excieting!  I thought about this yesterday and realized I'm beginning to get that same feeling.  Every morning I'm getting up with more and more excietment for what the day will bring.  Of course, this reaction is connected to my relationship with Him.  This 'time' I'm spending with Him each day seems to be leading to nicer and nicer things happening in my life.  I've noticed that when I do NOT spend this 'time' with Him - the day becomes more ordinary and UN excieting; sometimes things just don't unfold correctly.  But more often than not, when I DO spend that 'time' with Him, the day unfolds to nice surprises, things falling into place, and less disturbance; I even see my dreams slowly building up steam going in the 'right' direction. 

This child-like excietment is so simple, so wonderful and so rewarding.  But, it isn't something I just decided one morning to achieve.  This isn't something I planned.  It isn't even an idea that even occured to my mind.  But I saw it beginning to slowly unfold in my life, generated only by this 'time' I've been spending with Him.

This simple excietment and joy generates beauty. 

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