Smell the Roses

  Today is the day! Today is the day that I will meet my first grandchild - Aimee.  She was born at the end of March on the other side of the country and I haven't yet had the opportunity to meet her.  I'm sitting here thinking about what to write in my blog this morning and can't think about anything else but meeting her.  There must be something wrong with me because I'm not thinking about work.  We live in a driven world - some would say a striving world where we spend most of our waking moments dreaming and thinking about our accomplishments and/or jobs.  We clergy are the worst because we think we have an excuse - "I'm just doing what God has called me to do" we say.  Somehow I believe that God has called me to more than accomplishment.  He has called me at moments to sit back and really smell the roses -to sit back and bask in His light and in the blessings He has bestowed. Surely grandchildren are one of those blessings.  If I can't sit back for a moment then maybe there is really something wrong with me! What a way to start the day - dwelling on His blessings and thanking Him for them.  Thank you Lord.