Life can be such a roller coaster can't it? So much is constantly moving around us as we try to keep up with all that is on our plates. We're up, we're down. We get frustrated, anxious and downtrodden when things don't go right and sometimes we complain a little, or a lot.
I was in a normal up and down day with the kids and finishing up another checklist item by getting something put into my mailbox. Suddenly, it occurred to me that I had only taken a few steps to the mailbox. I didn't walk two miles and I didn't have to drive to the post office. I just walked to the end of my driveway. In addition, by simply writing an address and sticking a stamp on an envelope I could leave this object in a box, only a few steps outside my home, and...someone else was going to drive TO MY HOUSE to pick it up and then it would then be taken HUNDREDS OF MILES ACROSS THE NATION on my behalf...for 42 cents! Isn't that truly marvelous?! Seriously, can you consider how much gas money we save by not hand delivering a letter? It's an amazing convenience to have the mail picked up from the comfort of our homes and then delivered to another person's home or place of business for such a nominal fee. That's less than you'd tip someone for bringing you a meal, when you had to go to their place of business to get it!
Hmmm....that seems a bit uncommon to have such a suddenly grateful heart for paying so little to get my letter where it needed to go. What else could I be grateful for that I haven't thought much about before? Water! It comes into my house ready to use and out ready to be cleaned up. Wow...turn the faucet handle and there it is! Thank you Lord for stamps and water!
What else? My husband's passion. Often I'm not very grateful for this because the sharing of ideas puts me into task mode and almost instantly makes me feel burdened. But, I don't have to feel that way. I can, and am, grateful that the Lord has given him a passion to do whatever God has called Him to do. God uses this in many ways to His glory. For that I am extremely grateful.
How about you? What are you uncommonly grateful for? I would love to hear the responses! Let's thank the Lord today for the things we often take forgranted. I'm thinking that a little gratitude can go a long way in evening out the roller coaster of day to day living.
