the Kristen carol: embrace what is

It's the little things these days that are bringing me such contentment and happiness.

My desk drawer.

My collection of pretties from my mother and grandmothers and great grandmothers.

Look at my great grandmother Abigail's shoes. They are about a size 5. She must have been tiny.

My great grandmother Eleanor's lamp she brought back from Germany.

My sweet canary's song and delightful yellow feathers.

I think I'll always have a canary.

Looking at picture of my sweet babies.

Holding those beautiful stones polished and shaped like eggs.

My dog Tabitha. She loves me best.

She follows me around and her main goal is to be on my lap.

These simple pleasures has made me think of a my husband's great grandfather's collection of favorite poems he kept in a little note book.

"A rose, fresh cut and placed within a vase

A table cleared, a lamp beside a chair

And books I have loved beside me there.

Oh! I have found such joy!

I wish I might tell every woman who goes seeking

for some elusive, feverish delight,

That very close to home the great joys are

these fundamental things

Old as the race

Yet never, through the ages common place. "

by Grace Noll Crowell

To be honest at times I am that woman seeking for for some elusive, feverish delight.

I blame it on my big imagination and my childish faith.

I don't think big imaginations and childish faith are bad, I think they are good

But

Sometimes I start in on a day dream and I'm half way around the world with people I love from the past and present.

I wake up from my day dream jolted into the present moment of

laundry and limitations.

Resenting what is.

Resisting what is.

I forget that this moment in time is a part of my glorious eternal life.

This moment in time is all that is real and in my grasp.

This moment is where all the power and joy exists.

Embrace what is or you'll suffer.

That's a line from my newest song I wrote

just for the joy of it.

I've been thinking about what that means.

Embrace what is.

I don't think it means I have to just lay down and submissively accept what is.

I think it means embracing a situation or circumstance that you may not want but is what is.

Embrace it fully and you will find your way through it. You will learn from it and progress beyond it until it is behind you and you are embracing a new set of challenges or realities.

I am trying to embrace the fact that my guitar talent is a mere sprout.

I'm embracing it by writing songs anyway.

I'm embracing the fact that I have a lot of messy unorganized closets and right now I can dump all their contents out and organize them. Time consuming yet satisfying work.

Embrace what is.

I'm embracing the reality that my children need me to do simple things for them but these simple and repetitive things done consistently by and with me are monumental in there development.

I am ir-replaceable in their lives.

When I resent and resist what is,

I suffer.

I've learned this over and over.