I know, I know…it’s supposed to be a time of intense hardship in the world. Pandemics, wars, financial madness, etc etc. We’re supposed to be scared. Terrified. Hiding. Absorbing the gloom. Gotta tell ya…that’s just not me. I can get in there and be gloomy for a little bit, but my default soon takes over. I believe in the great things coming, and I see the great things already here, and I have a happy heart.
Thank you, God, for making me this way. I’m goofy to a fault, I sing around the house almost constantly (and badly), and often those songs are Christmas tunes. Such as, Jingle Bells, which got in my head as an ear worm when I was about 5 years old, and 50 years later is still there. I go around singing Jingle Bells year round. Like some sort of psychopath. Speaking of Jingle Bells, did you know that it was written by a music pastor at a church in Savannah, GA? It’s true, and that church is still there and you can visit it….it’s called “The Jingle Bell Church.” My oldest daughter lives there (in Savannah) so I’ve walked by it dozens of times. You wouldn’t expect that it came from Savannah of all places. I thought it came from the North Pole…anyway….
If you pay attention, there is greatness all around us. I like to think of it as God’s Kingdom already come, but I don’t really know. But I do know that it’s of God, by God, and sent with love from God. Such as this fever of stingrays I came upon this afternoon while walking on the beach…
Or this bloom that’s right outside the door of the cottage I’m making my home this week…
Those are great things. And they are EVERYWHERE.
Greatness can and is found all around us in both the living things, and also the circumstances we find ourselves. Right now, I fully realize it’s much easier to see the greatness in the circumstances of this week, but I’m like that all weeks and not just this one. For example, the Rona…
The Rona Pandemic has been a tremendous blessing to my life in a multitude of ways. Number one among them is that my wife now works at home and is with me all the time, and as far as we’re concerned, we have no plans to ever go back to how it was before. We are very happy this way. Like giddy happy, and that wouldn’t have happened if there were never a pandemic that forced it to be that way. If the world thinks we are going back to 45 minute each way commutes in horrible heavy traffic to sit in some office all day, the world made a big mistake in showing us how it can really be. Great things came from the Pandemic.
Great things will keep coming in abundance. Can you see them?
Gary
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