Living In The Moment

Okay, is anyone else tired of those emails from supposed older and wiser women who are at the age of reflection on their lives. They tell you how to live your life without regret, how to eat that piece of cake and forget the housework and ignore the mundane. They tell you how they learned too late to enjoy themselves and how they wished they lived their life for "the moment" and took the time to relax and enjoy the flowers of the gardens while swinging on the porch. Can you imagine the chaos in your home if you took this advice? We'd all be too fat to fit on that porch swing and the garden would be full of weeds because no one tended to it. The kids would all have coughs from smoldering sinus infections from all the dust that layered the house. I don't know about you but there is nothing more unnerving than the sound of barking coughs. There goes my peace! Who, may I ask, will prepare all this cake we are to eat? Who will do the dishes or go to the store or change the sheets or sweep that porch where the porch swing sits piled with unopened mail and newspapers? My peace comes from finding joy in the mundane, in preparing a feast for others to eat, in living in the moment with Jesus no matter what the circumstances are. I may not be too old or too wise yet, but I am happy.