A Perfect Ordinary Day

“I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.” Proverbs 8:17

The day was so beautiful it caught me by surprise.  I was driving to Indianapolis to pick up my girlie and about thirty minutes into the drive I had this overwhelming feeling of peace and gratitude.  The weather was perfect.  Blue sky, no humidity, bright sun and 75 degrees.  The day couldn’t have been more perfect.  In the quiet of my drive I realized that I had no impending deadlines, no yucky task that was  pressing on my time and nowhere else I’d rather be at the moment.   I couldn’t help but smile; one of those really deep smiles that comes from somewhere down around your knee caps!  I just started to pray in gratitude for all the things that made it a perfect day.

As I was soaking it all in, my mind wandered to all those I love who are suffering.  Families with sick loved ones and families facing tough decisions and folks knee deep in grief and struggle.  I prayed for them one by one as they popped into my mind and wished they could be with me, enjoying the perfect day I was right in the middle of.  The emotion of their pain and struggle washed over me and I felt it in my heart but after praying for each one, my mind and my heart went back to the perfect day God had laid out for me.

After another hundred miles I said out loud in my car, “Man I wish every day could be like this!”  I smiled and drove on for a while and then it hit me.  If every day was like this one, I wouldn’t be struck by the peace and I wouldn’t notice the perfection of such an ordinary day.  Nothing was spectacular about the day.  I hadn’t won anything, I didn’t have more money than I had the day before and the world was still full of pockets of ugly but the day was a gift.  As I kept driving I realized that the purpose of days like this was to fill my soul with the grace, love, presence and tenderness of My Father for days that weren’t like this one.

I soaked it all up and in my mind I bottled it up to put away like a treasure in my heart and the next time the day isn’t so lovely or easy or perfect I’ll remember this day and know that more will come.  I’ll remember what it felt like and what a gift it was and know it can’t last forever but then again neither can the yucky days.  I’m grateful for the day and I’m curious about how many others there have been along the way that I missed.  Mostly I just thanked him for the glory of a perfect ordinary day!

A Seed To Plant: Think about a day that was a  perfect ordinary day and ask God to help you put that memory like a treasure in your heart to save for a day you need it.​

Blessings on your day!