I’m sitting in my chair looking out the window. It’s a rainy day in October and I can see the leaves as a change. I see there are water drops on the window. I know that it’s cooler outside than it used to be. See the dead leaves laying on the grass and know that soon it will turn cold.

This day I think about things slowing down as autumn approaches winter. I sit and I look up in my house and I see 2 light bulbs that are out the need to be changed; it’s darker in here. I said in an earlier blog that my own left calf is discomforted because of the tear in my muscle that I had last week.

It’s cloudy today. There’s a sense of gloom. If I were to focus on those somewhat negative things then I would not have peace. However, in the midst of the discomfort, in the midst of the lack of light, in the midst of the leaves falling and dying on the ground, there is a sense of peace.

This day as I know all of these things I know that it’s because of faith in God I can be at peace. I know because of learning to fully feel emotions and let them go I don’t have to carry unnecessary weight. So instead of feeling like I should be accomplishing more or not feeling sadness for the change of season or whatever, I know that it’s okay. I know that I will heal completely and I’m doing so. I know that the seasons will come and go having a flow through time. I know that the light inside my house will increase as I change the lightbulbs. And I also know that sometimes it’s a wonderful gift to see the leaves changing and falling.

Sometimes it’s a wonderful gift to sit with discomfort and know that you’re alright in the midst of it. Sometimes it’s a wonderful gift to sit in a dimly lit room and now that you’re Albright even if you just sit and feel rather than fake and do. These are my insights this day.

Sometimes my insights are about walking straight through a difficult time and finding inspiration midst of it. Sometimes they’re about noticing incredible beauty that other people miss and appreciating it. Today the insight is all about appreciating what we normally don’t appreciate. And being alright in the midst of what we normally do not like.

It’s funny how the gray sky seems to be like me. Even as I write this little blog it seems to be gaining in the amount of light that is coming through the window. Perhaps that is just a observation of what God seems to be doing today. Perhaps that is a clear indication that as we live our lives and observe our lives as we then begin to see change. And that this is just a metaphor of our lives themselves.

How important it is to take time to be aware of our lives as we live our lives. How important it is to take time to observe. Not that we have to sit around all day as a monk of old or as as some sort of angel. No, often we will be observing our lives as we’re living them, as we’re doing what we would normally be doing and seeing inspiration in the midst of it all.

The point truly is to be thankful at all times and to learn to be thankful in and through all things. For as we give thanks, we entered into our lives more completely. We no longer say this is a distraction or that is an imposition upon what I need to be doing. The distraction or the imposition may well be exactly what we need. It may be exactly the gift God wants to give us.

So as I close this blog, my encouragement is to take some time. Take some time to learn to observe your life. Take some time to look at the raindrops on the window. Take some time to observe the leaves on the grass. Take some time to observe your own life.

Take some time to feel the discomfort of your leg as it heals or your hand as it heals or whatever it might be. Take some time to see a lightbulb that’ now burned out. Not that you have to do anything with any of these observations. Just see and be okay in the midst of it. Allow yourself to be at peace. Let that peace be the basis on which you build your life.