today

do you ever get overwhelming glimpses of the grace in your life? i think i need to record more of them. so that i can meditate on God's goodness when i start to panic and consider my circumstances to be a product of chance and happenstance rather than divinely ordained gifts. Albeit sometimes not exactly packaged the way i'd like them to arrive, but refining me nonetheless.

today i went home for lunch, and stopped off at the park to meet Floyd and RM who were finishing up an adventure down there. i arrived to a water-logged lab, happily sloshing around in the sandy creek; a very dirty little boy gleefully poking a stick in a mud puddle and eating fruit snacks with more delight than i can explain; and an unruffled, calm husband - despite his rough morning in a house under construction with rainy weather and a baby that really wanted to be "O'side!"

we got back to the house and made a sunbutter & jam sandwich for the boy, and a frozen pizza with rasberry lemonade for us. the dirty boy scarfed down his lunch and then got a quick bath in the kitchen sink. he ran around dancing to a crazy kids music cd. We ate our tasty pizza and gulped lemonade. And then it was time for me to go back to the office, and the boy to nap. Jim Hargate, III lazed in the front moss outside.

i love simple joys.