What a Day!!!!

Right now, this very moment, I am sitting in my little office on the second floor of my house.  It is a small room, so the two windows more or less cover one entire wall.  The windows are open wide.  I am listening to all the morning bird songs.  It amazes me!  There are so many different bird sounds right outside my one little window.  Tweet tweet tweet, chirp, squeak, trill, oooaaa, whoo wa’ hoo hoo hoo, yayaya, and several that I cannot even begin to imitate with the letters of our language.  We were not given letters and words that can truly convey the beauty of God’s creation. 

By many standards this hasn’t been the greatest week.  I am dueling with some weird blood sugar issue, I have somehow gotten lung congestion in the middle in the summer (I have asthma and had pneumonia last year – not good), the dog got sprayed by a skunk and ran into the house for sympathy (nough said), one of my cats is missing, and summer is over for me and the school year is beginning (as a matter of fact I really should be getting ready to go right now)…

But all I can see and feel are the blessings of the morning!  The gentle sunlight is streaming through my little eastern windows.  The birds are chirping and strumming and giving me the most amazing and beautiful personal concert to bless my day!  No one but God and I can hear this particular concert.  It is just for us and the birds (and my sweet little puppy on my feet, and I suppose the stinky dog out on the deck…).  My rooster just joined the happy chatter outside.  The sun just rose a little higher and filled my room with light!  The owl hasn’t went to bed yet, so amazing so beautiful!  The light and trees outside my window are creating a picturesque reflection on my computer screen.  A light morning breeze has just began sliding gently through the window screens.

Now I ask you, no matter what is waiting for me today – be it stinky dogs or breathing problems – how can I be sad?  How can I be downcast?  How can I be discouraged when God has given us this beautiful world!  God has blessed us so generously, God is SO amazing.  His world is SO amazing!  There is nothing to fret or worry about, nothing can get in the way of the joy of this morning.  It will be a fabulous day!

Psalm 118:24 

This is the day the Lord has made.  We will rejoice and be glad in it.

P.S.  I wrote this entry this morning.  Since then, my health has improved greatly, my cat has returned, and my dog doesn't stink very much anymore!  God is great!  What a wonderful day!