Wishing each of you warm and wonderful Thanksgiving. While we are all living our lives out in different circumstances, it is so important to let the little daily joys enter into our hearts. For myself, I have decided to start a small journal entitled "Little Joys". I want to capture on paper, the little and big gifts that God brings into my life. On days I may be feeling blue and finding it a challenge to have a light heart, I can open my book and read about joys I have encountered.
Yesterday a little wren come to visit. We don't ever see wrens around our place (sometimes I think I've seen them down in the thicket by the end of our long driveway, but never near the house). I was so thrilled! Little tail straight up like a flag pole and a bright white stripe above his eye, helped me identify him as a Bewick's Wren (named by John Audubon after his British friend Thomas Bewick). He was flitting around the rocks in the ornamental grass garden, then suddenly he was near the front porch in a little tree growing there, checking out the house and porch with much curiosity. I grabbed my camera just in time for a quick snap, then he was gone. I have not seen him since.
That was a big little joy for this bird lover! I thought about him all day long and was very much reminded that God cares about the things that make us smile, the things that make our hearts flutter, the things that we love. Thank you, God, for this first entry in my little book.
So with these thoughts, I hope you all have a wonderful season of Thanksgiving and encourage you to start your own 'little joys' writing book to help you reflect on God's many blessings.


