Categories: anything-and-everything
Date: 08 March 2007 12:33:59
It's my day off today and I'm trying to get things feeling 'nice' around me... you know the sort of thing - sorting, cleaning, tidying... not the most exciting way to spend a day off, but fairly rewarding all the same!
Anyway, my (huge) pile of washing is one of the tasks on the list, and having looked out of the window at the blue sky and sunshine I thought it was the perfect day to peg out the washing for the first time this year!
It was lovely to be outside - signs of spring all around, the cat enjoying bouncing around with company again - up and down the garden. And so as I work my way along the line with the washing I'm saying quietly to God, "Thank you for this beautiful day, for just being able to peg out the washing again..." And then the washing line snapped and all the clean stuff fell in the mud! I have decided not to reflect theologically on this turn of events - and I will try not to stop saying thank you for the little things in life (as well as the big things) even if they sometimes fall in the mud!
Who knows, maybe God was very kindly giving me something to blog about to get me back in the swing of things, or maybe it's a penance for being rubbish at Lent!