Shame on me

Well, I am ashamed of myself today. I made a commitment to write everyday about everyday joys and I didn’t keep it. I had lots of excuses. Nobody is reading it anyway. I had an idea in the morning but I forgot it by the time I got to the computer. Nothing joyful today. But that is really all just nonsense. It is hard to keep up the discipline of looking for the everyday joys. Which brings me to Sarah McLachlin’s song, Just another ordinary miracle today. I first heard it last year, when we were travelling in Canada. Our tour guide played it everyday on the bus. Then Sarah sang it at the opening of Winter Olympics. And it reminded me of how much we take for granted. There we were,, sitting in our living room in Melbourne, Australia, and there is Sarah singing it in Vancouver and we are hearing it live! Images are captured by cameras and then beamed to satellites orbiting earth and then beamed to a satellite dish on our building. And we get cranky if there is a flicker on the screen. What an everyday miracle this is. Is not my ability to write this blog a miracle: well yes given my brain has gone blunt as an old pencil, but just think. I type on a wireless keypad. Words appear on my monitor, but are really being encoded on a server somewhere in the USA. And if I had a reader they’d be reading it on their own computers at home. How is that not a miracle?