Sir Froggie

Sir Froggie’s Pondering
Ancient Amphibious Wisdom for a Modern Day World

SAVOR THE FLAVOR OF EACH NEW DAY!

Do you feel happy and content? Or is nothing ever all that satisfying? Does your life fill you to overflowing with love, joy and gratitude or do you feel cheated, empty, and lacking? How often do you pause and notice the blessings all around you?

Savor the flavor of each new day!

Every morning the sun rises and creates a different picture in the sky. . . a unique work of art meant to inspire us. It doesn’t matter if the heavens are clear, decorated with clouds, or completely blanketed in gray. It’s always a new painting on a different canvas each and every morning. How often do you notice it? How often do you pause to really watch the light as it greets everything on Earth with a soft kiss of the sun’s beautiful rays?

As you begin your day, do you consciously breathe in the fresh air, noticing the flowers and trees, bathing yourself in the sweet song of the birds? Or are you lost in thought, holding your breath, as you fuss and fret over the day’s never-ending to-do list?

Each day is like any fine wine or gourmet food. It is filled with its own uniqueness, quality, and traits. If we pause long enough to really notice what’s on our palate, we will enjoy and appreciate it that much more. But if we just rush through, digesting the day simply because it’s necessary, we’ll never notice all the sweet goodness it offers!

Every day has its own blessings to greet us, inspire us, comfort us, cheer us, challenge us, and move us.

Every day.

But it’s up to us to take note of them. To breathe in the day’s special nuances, to get a taste of the good life our Creator has for us. If we’re always rushing and never take the time to notice, we’ll completely miss the feelings of awe, gratitude, and reverence which create happiness and joy, as well as energize us in body, mind and spirit.

Take a moment several times throughout the day to notice your surroundings. Make a mind memory or a brain-photo of what you’re experiencing… Treasure the smile on someone’s face – including your own. Luxuriate in the colors and textures of nature’s variety of petals, leaves, and stems. Inhale the scintillating scents of a piece of fresh fruit or vegetable before biting into it. Bask in the beauty of a loved one’s eyes. Feel the glory and glow of a child’s innocent faith and allow yourself a moment to feel that way again too. Kindle the kindness in others by acknowledging little things such a door being held, or a quick “hello” in passing. Feel the sun shine on your face and skin if only for a minute and soak up its sensuality.

Truly enjoy as many moments as possible. No matter where you are there is a blessing to behold. Can you find it? Can you allow yourself to feel gratitude for it? Can you hold it in your mind’s eye and create a wonderful memory, if only for an instant? Can you indulge your senses and take pleasure in what you see, hear, feel, smell and taste at any given moment?

Slow down… Relax a little… Breathe… Take it all in...

And savor the flavor of each new day!

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