“Delight in the Daily”
WHEN: Anytime and any season
BLESSED SPOT: The bench where the path diverges to either go behind Falcon Bluffs or curve towards the pool
“Delight in the Daily”
We’ve lived in this neighborhood for 23 years. We walked this path with three kids in strollers and our first Golden Retriever rescue dog ‘Sam”. We called him the ‘walking sofa’ he was so fat when we rescued him. Then came elementary school and junior high and we got our first puppy - Kobie. (Yes, my basketball son would say it was after Kobie Bryant) who pulled us this way and that - just like our life with three busy kids. We’d rest on the bench, get rocks out of shoes, let the dog pee and then walk past the pool and long to be there or long for it to open again. And now it’s just my husband and I with our sweet sweet rescue Golden Retriever “mix” Piper. She has a ‘floofy’ tail that bobs like a girls high ponytail when she wags and her back legs look like women’s ‘fluffy furry’ boots! (And wouldn’t you know...lo and behold… a stroller came back with grandkids in it!)
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at hand, the path right before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties, daily bread are the sweetest things in life - Robert Lewis Stevenson
Babies born here, lived and left. We’ve walked this path and sat on this bench through a lot of life. Times with crazy schedules and barely time for a quick walk - times of grief and loss - times of ‘just another day' - times where I need a place to ‘cool off’ - but a close place, like meeting an old friend who’s always there. A place to breath for a few moments.
Grateful for the blessings of the everyday - those things that are always there when so many things in life are ever changing and unreliable. The unknown. I appreciate this bench. Through babies and bottles, sack lunches and driver’s licenses, dorm shopping and driving miles and miles for years and years to see our kids at college and then bringing them all back home (thank the Lord) and setting up their new homes close by. I’ve probably taken hundreds of walks to this bench but never really thought about this bench until now.
Enoch walked with God 300 hundred years - Genesis 5:21
He walked with God. Sounds pretty boring and… holy moly for 300 years. There’s nothing amazing or miraculous to report. No riveting story that unfolds. He just walked with the Lord. That’s it. But that’s us most of time. We walk to the bathroom, to the car, to the kitchen, to work, to pick up dog poo. Mundane. BUT what if everywhere we walk we are walking with the Lord. Apparently to God, it’s worthy of a note in his love letter to us - in the world’s all-time-greatest-best-seller EVER, the Bible - the inspired word of God.
For we walk by faith, not by sight - 2 Corinthians 5:7
He has told you, O Man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God - Micah 6:8
This spot has been prayed for
I have prayed that whoever sits here appreciates the beauty of the ‘daily’
I have prayed that God would remind you of something very ‘mundane’ that brings a smile to your face
I pray for God’s blanket of peace to settle on all who sit here - remember you are not alone in the isolation of COVID
Things you can do:
Text someone in your daily life and let them know how much you appreciate them!
Write down your thoughts on what it means to you to ‘walk with God. And as you walk through your day today, tomorrow and next week remember the value God places on just simply ‘walking with him’.
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