What a glorious day it is. Yesterday my husband
sent me a text message that had a quote from Maya Angelo, the quote said
something to the effect of look up at this beautiful day, thank you for this
day, I’ve never seen this one before. How awesome is that to look at each day
as being something new, a day we’ve never seen before. Why is it so hard for us
to think that way at times? I guess it’s because life is so busy, we just need
to slow down a tad. Whether we’re crafting our own beautiful little candy boxes
or wreaths (which you know I’ve grown to love talking about), life can be so
full of wondrous things at times. It merely takes a new perspective to
appreciate those very things you don’t typically notice.
That’s what I love about working in The Wreath Shoppe:
it feels like a slower pace. I’ll hunt and peck over details in a wreath
instead of frantically running around poking things in here and there. No, in
The Wreath Shoppe I sit back and ponder, I take a 1000 breaks, I stop and
listen to the birds singing outside! I don’t know why but something about a
hobby relaxes us even when we may have a deadline, we still work toward that
deadline in a more Relaxed manner.
Just like when cleaning The Wreath Shoppe, it can
be a daunting task depending on how much work I have been doing there in the
past several months. Seeing all the boxes that need repackaged, seeing all the
baskets that need straightened, seeing all the flowers scraps and ribbon scraps
that need to be swept, can feel a little overwhelming! But what if I looked at
it as an awesome chore that I get to do, because I’m healthy enough to do it.
What if I looked at it as I’ve never cleaned the shoppe this way before. Might
that attitude bring even more joy to me in my everyday activity? Might that attitude
lower my heart rate just a tad (to combat the extra sugar from the many candyboxes I sometimes get into)? I believe that attitude would work miracles if
only we could adopt that attitude, and it’s not even a matter of “being able”
to adopt it or not. It’s making that choice to see things in a new and positive
light.
