Blog Circle: Simplicity

In the every day tasks, we often get lost. Stress and anxiety begin to build. As a woman, a momma, a wife, an employee, a volunteer, a daughter, a sister to a soon to be bride.....well, I often truly get lost in the day to day roles that I have to fulfill.

Yet, this summer in the midst of loss, grief, stress, and many other emotions...I found myself seeking peace. I soon realized that in all my tasks I had forgotten to take the time to be grateful. My good friend Summie had recommended "One Thousand Gifts" to my friend Tina. I decided to find a copy and began reading. My search for peace soon was conquered. I started looking for the small things in my every day to be grateful. Soon I started giggling at loads of laundry fresh out of the dryer, the birds singing on my back porch, watching it rain, my children's uncontrollable laughing, a pile of fresh vegetables-locally grown, watching my children sleep, going to Redbox and renting a good movie, spending a long summer evening with an old friend, making a new friend, watching the sunset, laying in the backyard on our trampoline and looking at stars with my children, blowing bubbles, and laying out twinkling lights on the back porch. My list could go on and on because I challenged myself to stop looking at my circumstances and to keep it simple. I don't know what you might be facing today, but I hope you can at least take the time to look at things simply and find all the many ways that God has blessed you.....and smile.

Check out my fellow teacher, Kelli and her blogpost on Simplicity. http://kellikalish.com/blog/simplicity/

This was one morning on my way to my hometown. It was not by any means under good circumstances.....but I looked over and just had to pause and take this photograph. So much was already on my mind and on my heart. However, this photograph represents the simplicity of the dawn of a new day and water, which can quench a parched soul.