I’m sitting here at my computer telling God that I have nothing to write about. I committed to posting twice a week when I started this blog and was telling my son yesterday that I always have something to share when it’s time to post.
Until tonight.
But then I realized that my mindset was wrong. I was sitting and telling God that I had nothing to say instead of asking what He wanted me to share. It’s very simple. I’ve learned to find joy daily in the small things and it makes my life so much happier and peaceful. There is an old gospel song “I Choose Joy” that focused my thoughts on what was good in my life many years ago. Just thinking about choosing joy now shifts my thinking toward what is good and wonderful in my life, no matter how small or large.
And what happens as I choose joy is that I begin to be grateful for what and who is in my world. Today I’m grateful for the delight in my youngest grandson’s face when he played in his bath last evening with his new dinosaur bath toys I’d found online. Lately, he’s been fascinated with dinosaurs. He has played and slept with a hard plastic one and so he’s gotten some softer ones to sleep with. When I realized he was in the tub and hadn’t opened his gift, I ran to the bathroom with it. I struggled to get a well-sealed lid off and when I did, his 2-year-old face lit up. He played and played and played with them the whole time he was in the tub. He tried to hold them all at once. He lined them up on the edge of the tub. He squirted with them (they hold water and squirt out of their mouths) and played some more.
When it was time to get out, he wanted to take them with him but his mother correctly said they live in the bathtub and he needed to find his big dinosaur to sleep with. She is so good at redirecting him so he focuses on what he has and not what he can’t have. I admire her parenting skills every time I’m with them.
My other grandchildren were very happy with their puzzles and my son and daughter-in-love appreciated the chance I’ll give them later to go out without children in tow. But it was the littlest guy’s joy in another kind of dinosaur to play with that has me still smiling today.
What has put a smile on your face this week?