Simple life. No luxury but simple moments. In the morning I brought my family to watch movie in the neighborhood cinema. Then another ordinary evening to do groceries. Walking under the shadow of the trees, smelling the breeze of the wind. The kids walked slowly and playfully.
One day I would fully understand how great that moment was. If I were to come back from future, these were the moments I would pick to go back.
God's blessings are strange and found in the small little things too. Often.
In the evening, I walked to a nearby hawker center to share a plate of kway chap with my wife. We walked slowly holding hands as if we were dancing. We chatted from a to z along the way.
At night, I brought the kids to the bed, prayed for them for the things they shared and worried about. The youngest one slept on my hand clinging onto my arm. I looked at his face as he fell asleep and I could feel his heartbeat on my hand. I saw peace in his sleep, and it beamed into my soul.
I do not have a million in the bank, nor do I have a portfolio of properties. I only have one job and no business. I have worries and sometimes stress.
I do not live extraordinary life and noone follows or admires me. Most of the dream I had did not come to pass the way I pictured it on my youth's days. I have things in my mind that I wish I could have to make my life easier.
I do not achieve anything much or great today. Or I mean, in my life too, that deserves to be proud of. There was a sense of vanity and waste creeped into my mind trying to break into my fortress of peace.
Then as I looked back the day, I saw love, perfect love, from an extraordinary God woven into my ordinary day, today. I saw His hands. I did.
I saw Him on those moments today. I saw it that I could not recognised His presence, but really He was there. His thoughts are not mine and way higher than mine. I saw His love is a mystery, like the gems hidden under the sands, slipping into ordinary days for an ordinary man like me.
As I looked back at my day today, I saw Him smiling at me the whole day. He felt all my worries and anxieties and I also saw how much He wanted to tell me, how long, how deep, how wide His love is to me. But I did not know.
I saw Him holding the time and the eternity and that He knows the secret of what is worthy to hold, to chase, and to cherish, under the sun.
In this ordinary life, there is nothing more extraordinary than to know who He really is and how He loves us.
