Thinking today about choosing rightly, remembering good things that have proven to be good for me.
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, – Psalm 30:11
New thing, “by and by” moments of celebrations…anniversaries.
an·ni·ver·sa·ry
/ˌanəˈvərs(ə)rē/
noun
1.the date on which an event took place in a previous year
Writing on the prompt “Anniversary”, I found no words on love or marriage or recall of loss or season or celebration marked.
I’ve not a clue what was going on last year on this day.
I’m more concerned with momentous occasions, moments of my life that show me I should continue.
I do life best lately, “momentarily”.
Like taking a moment to prepare breakfast for my Friday morning desk, I am doing more things for my better than I have ever done before.
Just fry up some bacon, scramble some eggs, grab an avocado from the pretty bowl and then arrange it all on the scalloped edge paper plate, flimsy but fancy.
Sit with music filling the aloneness of your office and be happy, be happy in just the moment, the moment of your choosing “right healthy” food.
Remembering when you saw the church sign that kept telling you at the moment your running late car sped past, “Don’t go back to the place God delivered you from.”
The words that amounted to a moment only, but over time, so timely.
Now, the same route and the third day so far, same sort of moment; yet, different.
The church sign has changed.
“Stay close to God and you will never be the same.”
Moment by moment, every one sort of a joyous recall of choices well chosen, close as possible staying close to God.
Momentary living, my Happy Way of Life.
Surrounding myself with wisdom, wisdom like a quote push pinned to my wall, takes less than a moment to read, to remember, to believe.
I’m taking it all in, storing them up, counting them as joy rather than sorrow.
Putting them all together in a book I’d call “mercy stories”.
You can’t imagine the number of them.
Deciding to call myself “writer and artist”, after all.
Sort of a momentous decision.
For me.
Rambling on and on I know, and way more than five minutes and not much at all about “Anniversary”.
It can be hard to follow my conversation, I know.
Sentence or comma, moment or hour, every second, I’m making ’em count now.
Maybe I’ll look back and recall though, the day I changed my ways and decided to live “momentarily”, a momentous anniversary it shall be.
Lisa, I join you in the cherish and receiving in moments. Each one, a gift. Have a blessed Sunday, Julie
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I love your collection of thoughts on where you are, where you were, God’s grace through it all. I love the business cards… author and writer you are. 😊
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