The Little Things

It seems that lately life is so busy. There is no time to take for yourself. Deliver the kids to school, go grocery shopping, get home, put them away, straighten the house, throw in a load of laundry, pile some clean laundry on the bed to be folded at some unknown future time, put away clean dishes so you can put in more dirty ones, find tax papers (it is almost tax time), check which bills absolutely have to be paid, get them ready to mail, is it already time to go back to town and get the kids? Then after scool it is dentist appointments, basketball practice and games, scool projects and homework. Factor in driving time and the day can get pretty busy(and I am a stay home Mom, working Mom's have even more difficulty).
I have found my quiet times as I drive back and forth, listening to music or just being quiet, reflecting on my life and where it is going and what I'm doing. Am I forgetting, in all this business the truly important things? To love my children and my husband, to make the time to talk with them and see how things are in school or at work. To listen and encourage them with what they are doing? Am I making time for myself, to rest and not lose sight of some sanity?
I changed the picture on the header to a frazzled hen in the middle of her moult. Many times I feel like that! Instead of a "bad hair" day I will call it a "bad feather" day! Sometimes I get to feeling like no one notices or even cares about all the things I try to have clean and done when the family gets home, does anyone even notice at all I wonder? What a pity party, right?
A couple of days ago I set aside chores I should have been doing and took my dogs on a long walk. I needed some air and the morning was cool, crisp and beautiful. On that walk God taught me a lesson on the little things. I took notice of a spider web spun on some weeds, the sun came out through the mist and lit up thousands of dew drops on the web. They sparkled like jewels. I was on my knees in the wet weeds looking at the wonder in front of me, then I looked up and saw the whole hillside was full of sparkling webs. It was beautiful! Then I looked closer to the ground and saw tiny Lupine sprouts covered with dew. As I peered down into the amazing tiny part of this world I could smell the damp ground. I could feel the cold wetness of the dew soaking my shoes through to my socks, my pants were soaked and my elbows I was resting on sunk into the wet ground. It seemed that in that moment God asked me, "Do you notice or even care about the little things I do each day?" In my mind I felt God reminding me not to lose sight of the little things He does for me, His beauty is all around us. Let's not forget to look, take a breath and say "thanks God" I needed that!
Romans 1:20 says:"For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
Blessings!