Sometimes I forget I am blessed.  I start spinning with the ‘to-do’s’ and the very important matters of life like toilet paper and milk.  I focus exclusively on the needs right before me – make lunches for camp, drive, write for an hour, exercise, what’s for supper, go to the store, drive to camp, snack time, to the garden…My head is down and I march through.

 That is until life bumps into me – I see a commercial about small kids with cancer.  I hear a story on NPR about a guy with leprosy (what?  Isn’t that gone?) or another inspiring story about two girls helping other kids struggle with military deployed parents.  I see a woman in the community with cancer, again, hug her kids.  Flipping through the channels, I pause on Michael J. Fox’s new show – Adventures of an Incredible Optimist on TLC.  The next channel is a news story about the hunger in Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Africa…My shelves are full, even my garbage is full…

 And there it is, I am so very blessed.  I may worry and fret about the time-table of events, but above all, I am blessed.  I am before you in grace, poured out for me over and over…poured out for you too, but can you drink from the well of peace?  Or must you continue to spin???