E ven when our day doesn t go as planned, there may be a blessing to find in it. When I was in my twenties, I spent some time working in Appalachia with the Glenmary Home Missioners. I still remember what one of the nuns who worked there once told me about these interruptions. I think of them as unexpected blessings , she said. She was able to find the silver lining in almost any cloud.
Perspective is everything.
L ife can throw any of us some pretty good curves and some devastating blows. But, even on my Job days , I ve learned that the blessings are still there, even if I can t see them right away. God has given us much to be thankful for. In Simple Abundance , author Sara Ban Breathnach says her perspective on abundance enabled her to encounter everyday epiphanies, find the Sacred in the ordinary, the Mystical in the mundane, fully enter into the sacrament of the present moment Everyday life has become my prayer. Blessings are abundant in everyday life, if only we pay attention to them.