It's the little things in life that make it worth living.
Coffee creamer, in the spectrum of the universe, is not what most (or any) persons would consider to be important by any stretch of the imagination. It's one of the items in your cart that is a non issue. Either you have creamer....or you don't. No one will be rushed to the emergency room nor will massive amounts of counseling be needed to reverse the effects of missing creamer.
But, oh....it sure made my morning this morning.....
My heart actually jumped. Briefly and almost unnoticeably, but it jumped at the thought of creamer!
Ha! Laugh if you will. Consider me a silly "girl" who is just too emotionally charged for her own good. Too optimistic for this considerably pessimistic world that we reside in perhaps? In spite of the absurdity and insignificance of it all creamer made me happy this morning! It really, truly blessed my heart almost immediately because it was there!
Chocolate Toffee...that is the flavor. It is good. REALLY good! And I had absolutely forgotten that I had thrown it into my cart the other day. It was a side thought really....it hadn't even been on my shopping list....just saw it and thought, "Oooooo that flavor might be quite tasty!" Grabbed it. Dropped it into the cart and BAM!!! All the makings for my "Great Tuesday Morning" were within my grasp! Just by grabbing the tasty creamer....
Who would've thought.
Who would've thought that God could use creamer? I suppose I did, deep down in my soul. He IS God, you know.
And I love Him.....
I passionately love how he can use something like creamer, for example, to remind us that happiness must come from within. It isn't the fact that I had this chocolate toffee creamer that made me happy. Goodness no! It was the gentle reminder that the little things in life are what make life so enjoyable....not always the yacht and the condo on the beach. The most important things in life are usually free. (Or in my case, $2.) Happiness is at each of our fingertips. Perched on the end waiting for us to notice, to stop stressing, to breathe in deep the blessings that are EVERYWHERE if we but look.
Thank you God for creamer.
Thank you that I have the money to buy creamer. Thank you for my pink polka-dotted coffee cup that cost $0.25 at a garage sale. Thank you that my taste buds do exactly what you created them to do. Thank you that I have a computer to drink my coffee in front of. Thank you that I have fingers to type and share my thoughts with the people that are most important to me. Thank you for all the people who are most important to me; The people who have given my heart a place to rest on more than one occasion.
Thank you for this morning and my own personal hug that I got from you, in the form of
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toffee
creamer.
Thank you for spreading the happiness around! I LOVE that picture too. Those eyes!
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The Dad say's I love the fact you can take enjoyment from the little things in life.
ReplyDeleteYou always make me smile...creamer makes me smile too:)
ReplyDeleteI know the feeling! It's like forgetting you had left over pizza in the fridge:) finding joy in the small things is so important. When was young I would just sit on a log I'm the woods or on the wooden bridge over solodona creek for hours watching the water wander under my feet meandering toward the kenai river . Every once and a while a duck would fly over or a moose would march by but mosty my entertainment was on watching the way the leaves on the birch and blades of grass moved in the wind and listening to the sound they made as God rubbed them together. I think we forget to do this the older we get. We forget that the small things in life are so beautiful because they are connected to their creator. The chirp of a bird, the sound of a thousand leaves gently pushed together by a breath from God and the discovery of forgotten creamer in fridge put us back into a state of wonderment at the beauty that exist around us every day whether we choose to see it or not. I'm am even now sitting on my front porch in my pj's feeling the morning sun on my face. There are 2 larks arguing in the backyard and the sound of their song is beautiful. A jet just passed overhead leaving it's contrail behind as the only cloud in the sky. And I enjoy it all with a cup of coffee as well, though the fates forgot my creamer:)
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Great words, once again, Tami!
ReplyDelete"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." •James Branch Cabell