The view from Tuesday

 

Today was a crazy-rainy day.  My Georgia self was inwardly having a temper tantrum as I pulled on a sweater, jeans, and wool socks to go to school for my son's spring field trip.  My ego and super-ego had to wrestle my id to the ground and talk her out of booking a nonstop flight to Atlanta.  

Gray was the day.  But around five the sun made a tentative peek out and suddenly my world exploded into what my husband and I call the "dangerous time of day to house hunt."  You know what I mean...long shadows across lawns and a golden mellow light that transforms even the most trash-strewn empty lot into a potential paradise.   

I glanced out the window and saw this snapshot.  I'll walk you through it...on the lower left, the African violet recently bloomed after months of sulking.  The Ball mason jars were treasures I found in an antique shop while on a ramble with my parents (I won't tell you how much I got them for because you will be jealous!).  The adorable baby shoes came from a fundraiser in which children with special needs filled cast-off shoes with soil and tiny garden plants.  The two miniature peat pots were gifts from my son.  He planted a basil seed in each one because he knows that I like insalata Caprese in the summer.  On the far right is the basil plant I bought to sneak into the peat pots because I can't bear to tell him that the seeds he planted have long since washed away from the lavish waterings they have received.

In other words, bliss.  

Yes, I am still wearing a sweater, jeans, and wool socks.  But the view from Tuesday has revived me.  I take a deep breath and picture the joy resting on my head.  I don't think it is going to far to describe this moment as sacred.  A tiny snapshot of shalom to pull out when I am about to give in to self-pity.   

"For through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see--such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him."   -Colossians 1:16