Day 6
I put on freshly laundered clothes this morning. Boy did it feel sooooo good! The fabrics felt heavenly and the laundered scent divine.
My Clara woke early this morning. She usually is the last to get up. She noticed the brilliant colors in the sky and inquired why the sky looked this way. She perched atop our kitchen sink and watched with such intent and curiosity. She picked out all the colors and even noticed bits of blue within it. She sat there watching her first sunrise to completion in complete amazement!
I found myself using the opportunity to talk to her about how God places treasures in each day and that it is our job to find them. "The Sunrise is treasure #1!" she exclaimed.
We dropped Brooke off at preschool and as we were pulling into our driveway Clara yelled out, "I see a rainbow! That's treasure #2!" Surely thinking she had to be kidding, I asked her to show me. And there it was. Plain as day to the naked eye (not so much in the photo I took). A sign of God's promises kept, his unfailing love. Unfiltered and beautiful!
I found myself using the rainbow for another teachable moment. I honestly found the words to not be my own, but the Holy Spirit leading me to these conversations and placing the words on my lips. I told her to imagine she was playing Mom's phone or the tablet. She would have had her head down looking at it. Her head would have been buried in it and she would have missed all these beautiful treasures.
I know I am as much guilty of it as they are (honestly, probably more). Burying my head in something. I get caught up in the..."we need to get this done, run here or do this." The busyness become the hedge to my/our spirituality. It becomes the thing that prevents us from hearing God's voice. Often our plan for the day trumps his plan. We forego the path he has already laid out for us. And in doing so, we miss all the treasures! God, I don't want to miss your treasuries!
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