THANKFUL THURS ON FRIDAY! Better late than never!

So yesterday got a little hectic and I didn't get to finish my post yesterday. BUT I was reflecting ALL day on the MANY things that I was and am thankful for of course! And while driving into work I was just taking in the drive and all the things around me and then I was stopped at the red light in old town Flowery Branch. And right next to the red light to the right of me there runs a railroad track parallel to the road and all of a sudden I hear a train and the guard rails come down and I see the train coming around the corner and then I see the lights on it and I quickly turn down the radio and roll down the windows and just listen for the train horn sounding. The red light turns to green right at the same time the train is just sounding the best part of the horn, you know the loudest part where it crosses the intersection of the railroad tracks. The part that I love the most!!!! So, where I would normally take off at a rapid pace at the red light turning to green I took my sweet time, taking in the sound of the train in all it's simple but huge glory. To most it's probably annoying, the sound of trains that is, the slow person at the front of the red light not taking off fast enough for your liking and the train going through the intersection that you need to cross that morning. Normally it would totally be annoying to me even. Well NOT the sound of the train, because I LOVE the sound of trains anytime! But for some reason the other morning I just took it all in and was LOVING it in a way that I felt I never really have in awhile. I really love the small things like this in life. The icing to life that makes me smile. It's like driving down a rather boring road and finding a HUGE field of sunflowers along it's path that just brightens up your day and makes you smile. At least it makes me smile and brightens up my day, I don't know about you and I certainly can't speak for you about these simple things in life. But if for a second or two in your hectic lives (because I know we ALL have them) you could literally STOP to smell the roses as the saying goes, or in my case the other morning, pause or stop to hear the train and take it all in a little more or a little better maybe, just maybe we would appreciate these things better and more and maybe it would make us each a little happier on the inside and less stressed. I'm just sayin' it certainly couldn't hurt right?

 

I am thankful for these simple things in life that truly make me happier and joyful and they make life a little brighter each day if each of us really stopped to take them in. Come to think about it even the little guy that stands on the corner jumping up and down with the Ci Ci's Pizza sign dancing around trying his hardest to earn business for the company brings a smile to my face. I know it sounds crazy but it just makes the drive to the bank each Friday that much better knowing that at least I will get some entertainment along the way right?! As I sit here and write about that I laugh to myself out loud actually! LOL! If you just were to take a look around you at all the chances you really have to take in the things that can make you smile and feel good there really is no reason to let one thing or another ruin your entire day. Sure, maybe you get mad or frustrated for a portion of it, who doesn't right? I have a ton of times within this day and within the time it has taken me to complete this post in fact. BUT the fact of the matter is, is that we can choose to either LET is take over our entire attitude towards the remaining portion of the day we may or may not have left of that day.....OR we may CHOOSE to let it roll off our backs, laugh it out, pray about it and let it go. Look around us and find something, or someone to make us smile if even for an instance. AND if you see or hear about someone having a rough time during their day BE that person to bring a smile or laugh and light into their day. IT may make ALL the difference in their little part of the world in their day more than you will ever know. The people that did that for me today made my day brighter by doing that for me  more than they may ever know and I appreciate them for it!

 

Dear Lord- I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for placing all the little tiny and sometimes not so tiny, even large things that are all around us each and everyday that I myself seem to take for granted sometimes Lord that are here to make this world a brighter place if even for a moment in time. I just want to thank for them and thank you for placing them there and and at just the right times and moments in my life when I need a burst of light in my life or ray of sunshine in my otherwise frustrating gloomy day Lord. Thank you for adding these parts of the world into our everyday life that really makes it truly brighter and better and makes me smile bigger! Thank you for all that you are continuing to do in my life day in and day out and being the CONSTANT light that makes me whole. -Amen.