Bless This Ordinary Day
Friends! It's been a while, but I've gotten back to the blog! Here's a writing I did yesterday, inspired by the poem "Normal Day" by Mary Jean Irion. Bless this ordinary day… Bless the coffee, which is such an ordinary part of so many of our lives, yet has travelled great distances to cheer our cup. Bless the high lands and steep mountainsides where the beans grow. Bless Tanzania, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Sumatra, Guatemala. Bless the workers who pick and who roast. Bless Fair Trade organizations who ensure these workers are paid fairly for all their labors. Bless the shelf stockers, organizing and reorganizing the shelves so we can easily find our coffee, our cereals, our daily bread. Then bless the water. Bless the first sips of the morning, the ones that rehydrate your parched body. Bless the water, so easily accessible to us, that flows from our faucets, our showerheads, our spigots. And bless the wells and the rain barrels. Bless all those