Seizing The Day

Sure, I'm supposed to be snapping green beans.  I"m doing what I do best, procrastinating.  It's going to be a late night doing beans, I'm afraid.  Just had to write about yesterday.

Carpe Diem-from the Latin, literally means to pluck the day.  I've always heard it said to "seize the day".  What happens when the day seizes you, or plucks you.  

Yesterday I  thought the day truly seized me.  A mountain of tomatoes that were in need of being made into soup and the ensuing mess that follows would be in need of cleaning.  My legs were not cooperating at all.  I was constantly needing to sit down.  My maid has never shown up to help with these chores at all! :-)  It came to the point when I need to ask God to give me strength just to stand long enough to get some tomatoes squeezed.  My husband came home thinking he would be cutting grass but in God's providence it had rained here...again....that meant that the cavalry had arrived.  He was such a help to me in the entire process.  God does work through simple circumstances.  

It has been easy to get discouraged lately when my beloved clothes line seems to have moved a mile away,  things just don't get done like they should or when they should and some of the things I love to do seem to be becoming a memory.

This morning a blogger that I follow posed about a remodel she and her husband are considering and how it might make life easier when they are older.  When someone else posted that it seemed "sad".  Here is what was written in return: 

Getting older is actually a privilege 
Sadly lots of people don’t get to find out about it.

Many, many wonderful things come with age and I wouldn’t want to be 25 or even 45 again for anything
(well …maybe I like to look like I did when I was 25 

For me personally every day since June 12, 1976 has been a gift from God. And for the past 38 years I’ve been allowed to grow older so I’ve got no complaints – just gratitude.

--Katherine Grossman

http://www.granny-miller.com/

Grateful.  Learning to be grateful.