Feeling Small

I've been awake for about an hour, sitting at my desk finishing up summer class work. My desk looks out into our yard. Ike sits in the chair to my right and watches the happenings outside of the window. Every day we watch lots of birds. That's pretty standard.

But in the last twenty minutes we have seen  a mama deer pass through the yard, just taking her sweet time. Then we had our Mr. Cottontail, whom we love as long as he stays on this side of the house away from the garden. Ike followed the bunny rabbit watching him from 4 different windows in the house and I followed right behind him to make sure Mr. Cottontail crossed the street safely.

Here I sit consumed by the three papers that I have two days to write and God reminds me how small all of that is. There is a whole wide world happening around me. Animals who are taking advantage of this longest day of the year and are out and about while I sit here like a caged animal. They are free to roam, sure they have dangers (for Bambi's mom my husband is one of them) but they can go anywhere. They can feed off of plenty of gardens in these parts and as I ponder on it, why shouldn't they? as long as they leave a little for us

I get so consumed with this list:

and others like it that I sometimes become consumed with crossing things off of it and forget to do anything that hasn't been qualified as good enough to make that list.


Yesterday with these two was an excellent reminder of that:

Nothing like a day with old friends and new babies to bring things into perspective again.

I usually cringe when people go on and on about being blessed because it comes across as braggy. But in certain ways we truly are all blessed. To be able to be a minuscule part of this great big world and to have a small part in it for a short time. That is God's gift to us, don't waste it siting at a desk and forget what's important.

Happy Summer Solstice, try to get outside for a few hours today that is why God gave us this longest day of the year.