I woke up and saw this as I walked to the bus stop. Just before this, I washed a dish that had been left on the table the night before and took a pizza box out that was left on the stove.
I think about so many things and I write about all of those thoughts, but let me tell you a truth: today is a good day. I am a blessed man to see this one.
It's freaking beautiful today. Just gorgeous. Even if it rains ten minutes from this moment and I don't see this view when I come home tonight, this is enough.
I repeat: this is enough.
In life, in the middle of our everyday, mundane things and our pain, we so easily forget or sometimes forget to celebrate the fact that life is statically beautiful and that fact, for all of our brokenness and the brokenness we suffer interacting with others, that life is absolutely beautiful and it should be treasured and celebrated.
Play a song and dance to it. I did.
The fact is that, sometimes there's just storms in life and we don't always get shelter from those. We're not promised now, or ever, to be shielded from hurt or from pain. We aren't promised many things, actually, but the promises we do carry are precious things and one of those things is to be strengthened; things I was so upset about only days ago are like fleeting memories that -- get this -- I'm laughing at.
I believe it is the gift of God to be able to laugh at people and things that attempt to cause you pain and I had that thought today. In many ways, I'm invincible and where I am not, it will hurt someone more to hurt me than it would ever hurt me in a million lifetimes.
Life is good. Today is good. Your experience can follow that. Take a moment today to celebrate life. All of it.
Including your own.
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