The window of the present

“I stood and gazed out the window...” How often do we sit and gaze out the window and watch the falling rain or whatever nature decides to gift us? This song is probably one of my favorite song but I can tell you that I do not live up to it. Taking time to sit at the window and watch the falling rain when there is laundry to be washed and PUT AWAY? Dishes to be washed? A whole kitchen to clean? The long list of to-do list in the history of mankind. The other day I told Brandt that it seems like being an adult consists of doing laundry, cooking, and cleaning the kitchen.

My friend’s word for this year is “present”. Present for today, not thinking about our to-do-list for tomorrow. If we are present for today we have time to sit down and gaze out of our window. We allow time for that peace to quietly fall upon us. Then the voice of love echoes in the quietness. The power to be still is in the present.

This right here is my story, my life and the way I experience things. I love to sit still and do nothing but gaze out the window. For you it might be different. Maybe your gazing out the window is folding laundry, washing dishes. I don’t know, maybe you could even find it while laying tiles, Mitchell, or woodworking or delivering mail. And there will be times when silence feels uncomfortable. Take time to explore why, and give your mind the peace that it deserves. With every laundry you fold, every dish you wash, every diaper you change, every square inch of grass you mow, every forest path where you find yourself or whatever it maybe, stand and gaze out the window.