Experiencing The Good / Our God Daily

I wasn’t sure what to title this, or what page to put this, but I have learned to experience the good. I’ve learned to live and experience our God daily. So I guess I love this new way of life in experiencing the good/our God daily and just need to share.

I always knew that God is good and He gives us little bursts of joy and moments of peace, but it was hard for me to experience it.

I realized that in the pandemic, one of the greatest blessings of being forced to slow down, stay put, and simply look for the good around me, is I started to recognize God’s goodness more readily. I started to train my eyes, my mind, and my heart to see the good in things (and even people) I rushed past and didn’t notice because “I didn’t have time” before.

In all of these blogs, I struggle to figure out who my audience is, what people want to hear, and what my expertise is in. So I just write whatever from the heart into the great void of the Internet for whoever this may reach about whatever I am experiencing. After about a year, I narrowed down my scattered brain full of random thoughts to fit into three categories of live, love, and learn.

And even now, I am trying to continue to refine this as I find my voice. As I start to wonder if others are believers like me or those seeking peace. And to narrow down to topics that highlight God’s goodness in the little daily moments. I guess it’s part of the process of being a new blogger and writer as I step into a new world out of my comfort zone. We all really don’t know what we’re doing and just need to keep going and trying, living, learning, and loving the process along the way.

So one thing I do know that I have come to love that continues to fuel me day after hard day, is that in all of it, there is good to find. That God is still there. Here. With us. We can experience it even today!

I did today. Another day very tired, swamped with things to do, and because of a very very slight runny nose, it’s a second day that my son is home with me and can’t go to school. He’s totally fine, but this is the life we live now with COVID. Before, I would get so frustrated (and trust me, I still do) and look at him and think, “Why are you here? Why are you with me? I got so much stuff to do!”

Thankfully, his tender four year old heart always just looked backed lovingly at me, simply so happy to be near me. To spend any time with me. Even if I was a grouch, he cuddled up to me.

And I started to take note of that and now find myself in the exact same repeated situation, but have learned to not only live with this reality, but love it and look at him and say, “Thank you God that I am able to be the one to take care of him. And thank you that there’s not really much to take care of because he’s not even sick. Thank you for giving me this time with him. You must be trying to teach us something through this experience”

I types this, literally live documenting the moment from my fold out red Coleman chair, laptop in my lap, and watching him play all alone in the yard with his wild imagination, super happy to just be a few feet away from me while I type, and he “activates the super power forces to save the day with his Baby Eagle and his buddies in their robot monster truck contraptions shooting imaginary bad guys that threaten to attack while he screams with enthusiasm!” LOL!

May this encourage you to find the good daily. Experience God with you daily. He’s there. It may just take some slowed down time, repetition, and intention before we experience something different in our same old situation. :)