One of Those Days
“It’s going to be one of those days, is it?”
I said to myself when I stuck my lawn sprinkler
into the ground this morning and the pointed
plastic insert broke off because I pressed it
into the ground on a slant and the pressure
caused it to snap, and as I went about my day
as I usually did, whatever I did went slightly
askew, nothing significant, but obvious enough
to let me know that if I continued in that rhythm,
my whole day would be ruined; so, I pleaded
with my inner guiding principle to set my day
straight, and in silent contemplation it came
to me that I had slipped out of the natural rhythm
of my daily life because I had broken the pattern
of my morning routine by adding two glasses
of tap water to the coffee maker because I did
not have enough water in our Brita water filter
that I always use when making coffee, and out
of the blue it came to me that to get back into
syn with life, I had to put myself into a state
of grace and align myself with the harmonious
rhythm of life, and I sat back again and closed
my eyes and filled my mind with thoughts of love,
remembering all those wonderful moments in my
life that filled my heart with the holy goodness
of joy and laughter; and I knew, as certain as God
made little green apples, that grace was the way
to chase the trickster away and get my life back
on track with my destined purpose of living
my life to the fullest.
