Today was just another day, nothing really thrilling to report. Cleaned the kitchen. Ran errands. Saw friends. Cooked meals. I have a love hate relationship with days like today; part of me loves them because they are easy but the other part of me hates them because it doesn’t necessarily satisfy my love for adventure.
A couple of months ago we had a few friends over to hang out and pray over a friend who was leaving for Guatemala on a mission trip that next week. Well the night took a sweet and surprising turn when our friends asked if they could pray over us. Judah at this time was about 6-weeks old and I was still getting a handle on things, I often felt overwhelmed by life, making prayer more than welcomed in my life. While they were praying each of them sweetly gave words of encouragement, one of which went along the lines of, “finding miracles in the mundane,” they went on to explain it by encouraging me to, “see the gifts in doing the mundane day-to-day thing, such as folding laundry, changing diapers, making dinners and so on.” To be honest I dwelled on it for maybe a few days and then moved on, until today.
This morning when I was on Facebook one of the friends who had been there that night had this as her status, “Miracles happen in the mundane. Here’s to a day of the miraculous! (School law reading, laundry, cooking, tutoring, budgets)” Which reminded me of that night and the words that had been spoken over me. Miracles in the mundane has gone through my head more times than I can count today. I can’t say that I feel like what I am doing is miraculous or that I derive pleasure out of the mundane day-to-day things in life. What I can say that when I sit back and reflect on it, I am grateful that I get to do them for my family. I am blessed to have a husband who is willing to work so hard in order for me to stay home and raise our son.
My prayer is that I will begin to see the blessing and miracles in the moment as I do the day-to-day mundane things. That instead of being frustrated with or bored of things like laundry and dishes that I would do it with a joyful and grateful heart.
What are some mundane things in your life that you need to see as a miracle or blessing?
