Lani's Blog

Ordinary Days

I am sitting at my computer looking out my window. The leaves are falling gently because autumn last almost all winter in costal South Carolina. The lawn is green with patches of brown as if to say this is the last gasp before a winter’s sleep. The bleak morning sun is fading in and out among the clouds. For comic relief, there are wrens playing in the yard and fighting for seeds in the scraggly southern pine just outside my door.  My dog lifts his head at their musical noise but decides it’s too much effort to go break into their game. I guess we’re all getting older.





What's interesting at least to me is how ordinary everything is today.  And how long it’s been ordinary around here. It’s one of the reason’s the blog has been quiet.





Of course there have been little dramas but nothing earth shattering or even blog worthy. I missed my Dad again during Thanksgiving and especially this football season with the Colts doing so well.  The ache is now familiar so I acknowledge and remember.





I did try to take a creative writing class here a WDC. Thanks goes to Boos girl for her patience, but ordinary life got in the way. I hope to return when I can figure out hubby, ADD, homework, housework and overtime.





You know what I have achieved? Ordinary and that’s great. I’m not the center of the universe anymore. A wrong word, a wrong action or a wrong outfit will not shatter the world as we know it. I’m not responsible for Everything. What a relief! Jesus can handle World Peace with out me. He can handle my boss, my family, and my co-workers. I am only responsible for what I do and say. I can pray, but I am not responsible for the out come. He is. Halleluiah and pass the ammunition. It’s only taken 47 years to realize this. Today I have peace and contentment. And I guess that’s not so ordinary.