Our Own Backyard

Dear Friends,

We don’t have to go far to find beauty in our lives, we can look for it, we can notice it in our every day, in our daily surroundings.

Last Sunday, during the storm, my son and I got on our cross country skis, and skied down to Sligo Creek Park to go on a little mid-storm ski trip in the park.

By the time we got out the sleet had started in ernest, but it didn’t bother us, and for most of our skiing, we had great conditions.  Toward the very end the stickiness started up, but for most of the time we were out, conditions were perfect.  

It’s a good thing we got out that day, because by the next day the world was a sheet of ice, and conditions were terrible for skiing.

I was thinking, as I was skiing, how often we put off noticing the beauty of the world around us until we stop, we travel, we go somewhere different, we take ourselves out of our own lives and enter a different world…but, my friends, noticing the beauty in the every day, noticing the beauty in our own world, the world that is surrounding us daily, the world we move through day after day, that’s the thing that can make the real difference in our lives.

We don’t need skis, or a giant snowstorm to notice beauty.  We can, every day, strive a little more to see the world around us, to breathe a little deeper, to slow down and notice, to find that beauty in the every day of our lives.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista