Yesterday was pretty much a perfect day. And because they don’t come around all that often, I just wanted to put that down here that it did. It was no one thing in particular, just a notch above regular. It all hit me as I was scrapping a page for the garden and listening to my new ipod after having spent the morning with a really good friend hanging out and becoming more enlightened, and the evening eating dinner with the family (one I didn’t shop for, cook or clean up!). I just wanted to burst.
I was watching Oprah the other day talking to tennis star James Blake and they were talking about all of his success and how his life seemed so wonderful. They talked about how only a year before he’d broken his neck and nearly was paralyzed, he’d gotten shingles, and lost his dad to cancer all over the course of a couple months. He quoted Arthur Ashe who, when he found out he had HIV said, ""I’m not going to sit here and say, ‘Why me?’ because I wasn’t saying ‘Why me?’ when I was holding up the Wimbledon trophy." I loved that. James was saying his life had been wonderful and filled with sunshine, so he can’t complain that it rains sometimes.
Normally I am kind of afraid to acknowledge that things are wonderful because I am afraid it might be a cue to God that I need some rain. But, fact is, rain comes to everyone. It makes us stronger, it proves us, it makes us grow. And my fear of the rain shouldn’t get in the way of enjoying the sunshine. So I’m going to sit here in the golden glow and thank God for a beautiful sunshiny day.
by Shannon Montez
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