Every Ordinary Day

Thank you, Lord, for the gift of every ordinary day . . . like today.

Thank you for the treasure of life and time with those we love and with those who love us. Every ordinary day is the evidence of Your gift of life to every creature of earth and sea.

With Your expressed permission, we live in a very small, distant corner of Your creation at exactly the perfect – “Goldilocks” – distance from “our” sun.

Here we live on a little speck of rock and water and air, a little planet, the one we call Earth, that is our world.

With Your expressed permission, the human heart beats 100,000 times every ordinary day. I am grateful for Your generous gift of my steadily beating heart every ordinary day.

Every ordinary day, with every breath, You take the air out of me, and give it back again.

You are constantly teaching me to trust You, to learn from You, to love You in the good times and in the difficult times of every ordinary day.

You give me just enough patience not to look beyond each ordinary day in search of some special and perfect tomorrow. I am overjoyed and profoundly grateful just to “be” in every ordinary day.

Every ordinary day is a thread of time woven into the tapestry of my life. In every one of my ordinary days, You share with me the wonders of Your creation.

You bless me with Your gifts of loving kindness . . . breathing, seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking, speaking, writing, touching, tasting, laughing, loving and being loved.

You generously share Your spectacular gifts with all of us in this splendid experience we call “Life.” There is no word in any language of Earth that is big enough to say “thank you” for so great a gift.

To merely say “thank you” is way too small an expression of awe to contain the majesty and power and commanding presence of every ordinary day.

When truly amazing things happen around me, especially on those ordinary days when I’m suddenly way over my head in harm’s way, I am especially aware of Your presence.

In those moments, I know, for sure . . . its You. Its always You.

You catch me from behind. You search my heart. You surprise me with unlooked for blessings that touch me deeply with Your profound generosity . . . every ordinary day.

You show me the way to live an honorable life. Without You, I could not do it on my own.

Every ordinary day, You give me just enough sense, just enough wisdom, just enough grace, to give back to You the gift of my living in grateful appreciation for every ordinary day.

Every ordinary day is a treasure. Soon enough, with Your expressed permission, I will pass from time into eternity on my very last ordinary day.

In Your wisdom, You have designed the reliable rhythm of my breathing, and the faithful beating of my heart to occur in pairs, except for that very last time.

In that moment, You allow me one last breath, one last heartbeat. The others You keep . . . the ones that bring me home to You.

On that ordinary day, I will have completed Your purpose for me on this Earth.

When I die, I won’t be dead. My Lord will change my world instead.

With Your permission, Sir, I am ready for my next assignment.