December. One of my favorite months of the year, the sights, the smells, the atmosphere that the cold weather seems to bring with it each year. Has this year really gone by so quickly already. It seems like we were just enjoying summer; spending hours down by the river, eating dinner on the deck, and sleeping outside on the trampoline.
This eucharisteo list has lengthened over the past few weeks, and it's not because its Christmas time, and not because of everything that has been happening around us; but its because I am learning to see eucharisteo, to see it in every moment of everyday. These gifts that He shows me are not big miraculous moments, in fact they are often very simple. At first I thought they might even be too simple to count, yet God showed me that it is in those simple graces that I find Him the most.
When I find His gifts, I smile and thank Him, because sometimes those gifts are just simply perfect; always showing up at the right time. How great He is! How wonderful He is to give us such precious moments as these . . .
- cranberries bubbling on the stove- laughter that spreads around the table- fogging up the car windows to draw smiley faces- waking up to see snow outside- tight hugs from the family you’ve missed- watching little ones play; giddy and blissful