My happiness has gone up exponentially in the past week because my best friend has her son at a point where he is out of the woods. So she and I have had some serious fun lately and I feel like life is somewhat back to normal after sitting at the feet of near tragedy for two months. God is on the throne with her son, and with all of us. He is going to do great things in God's kingdom and I am so grateful to have a front seat to view the show. Little things like his being able to talk now when I go over there. That he can tell me about the plot of the Hobbit. He has to put his finger over his trach to talk but he is talking. Little things make me happy. The fact that he could join us while creek wading made me happy. He didn't want to because he is not an outdoors kind of guy, but he COULD. Little things.
When we pause to appreciate the little things in life, our life is filled with more zeal. More authenticity. Sometimes we have to remove some of the noise in life to appreciate. I was blessed while at camp to be visited each and every day at the same time by the same bird who flew out of the same spot in the woods and did the same ritual. It was a moment each day that brought great joy to me and made me feel like God himself had come to visit me and have lunch with me.
Every day I would drive the specialty counselors up the hill to the lodge at camp for lunch. One day I was visited by a red bird. He flew out of the woods, landed on my right side mirror and then landed on my windshield wiper and looked at me through the windshield. I was fascinated by the visit. The next day, he did the same thing. It got to the point that I didn't go into the lodge to eat lunch anymore, I just stayed in the bus so I could visit with my little bird friend. I was sad on the last day of camp for the summer because I would not see my little bird friend anymore until next summer. Then I realized that God spoke to Moses through a bush. If Moses had not paid attention to the bush, then God would not have been able to speak to him. Little things like bushes and birds give us opportunity to listen and commune with God. If we are so busy that we don't pay attention to little things like birds and bushes then we will never truly be able to commune with our Lord. At least not on a raw, personal level.
Something else has been on my mind lately about little things. My oldest daughter has hearing aids. If you need update on that situation, please go to my archives at the right and read, "Witnessing a Modern Day Miracle". She has not been putting her hearing aids in regularly lately and it occurred to me that I may have discovered the answer to that. I have asked her about the lack of wearing them and most of the time get a defensive answer but not yesterday. Yesterday I got a very candid answer that confirmed what I had thought was happening. She has been in the deaf world for 18 years and it is comfortable to her. When she wears her hearing aids, sounds scare her and the world is very loud to her. For example she was frightened this 4th of July because she heard fireworks for the first time. They scared her to death. The sound of the ice maker scares her. The sound of the air conditioner cutting on in the house scares her. These are things she never heard before and now that she can, the hearing world is a scary place to her. She enjoys the solitude of her deaf world. She likes to read lips. She likes to hear also, but it is so loud she likes to retreat to her solitude. She feels like people are yelling at her even though they are just having a normal conversation. We all need solitude in our lives. Time to stop and smell the roses, experience quiet, hear nothing. Little things.
Let's all stop and appreciate some little things. Notice the bushes, birds, butterflies and solitude that is available to us each day. It is then that we truly can commune with God.
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Jennifer
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