Every Day is a Gift!

 

I was meeting with a family in my office this past week and they looked at a picture on my desk and asked how old my boys were.  They also seemed very surprised when I said 7 and 9 (almost 10).   Then I looked around at the pictures I have in my office.   One picture frame is full of pictures from 2004.   Then I looked at pictures from our weeding (2000), other family pictures (the most current is 2012). 

I used to scrapbook, and I loved it.   I have baby books for my boys, I have family books from 2000-2011……then I just stopped enjoying it.   It became a chore.  So I kept doing it out of feeling like I needed to, and then I just kept putting in off, now I don’t do it at all.   Guess what?  My family and friends still love me.   

Time is a gift, every day is a gift to us.   I find this to be a wonderful blessing on my bad days (know that tomorrow brings new hope) and even on my most wonderful day (thankful for the blessings)

It was in the moment when I sat in my office and giggled at all of our dated family pictures.  It is now 2013 and our children are older and life has changed.   But, also I spent a good 10 minutes this week enjoying the pictures and the memories that fill each frame. 

Bishop Gary Mueller posted this blog this past week, and I find when others say it best just to quote them.   So, enjoy his message below:

“An Incredibly Sacred Day”

"It may seem like just another day. You begin it with a cup coffee,checking Facebook and working out. Or maybe you have a brief morning devotional. Or perhaps you just jump right into the busyness of the day without any ifs, ands or buts.

But regardless of how you begin your day, make sure you really understand what you need to know most of all about today – there’s never before been a day like this and never again will ever be.

Today is a gift to you from God. It’s unique, filled with opportunities to love God with everything you’ve got and filled with more possibilities than you can possibly imagine to become part of God’s work.

When you put all of this together, it means your most important task today is to open your heart to God, experience just how much God loves you and live your life fully, joyfully and selflessly.

And then it happens. You suddenly realize that this day that seemed like just another day is actually an incredibly sacred day. Not so much because of what you make it. But because you are walking through it arm-in-arm with God.”

See you this weekend,

Kim