I’m still thinking about wonder, because May is coming! May. Oh May. How do I love thee? In addition to spring fully blooming during this beautiful month, which I love, and the sound of lawn mowers firing up and the smell of spring rain, which I love, and the sight of plants being hung from front porches and windows staying open, which I love, May brings an extra level of… extra around these parts. In my family, we have a LOT to look forward to every May. This May’s lineup includes:
I could just approach the month as a chock-full series of things to be checked off. To show up for everything with the obligatory gift bag, ready to engage in the expected social niceties. That would be cool. And then before I knew it, it would be June… then July… and on it goes. Life goes by in a blink and a blur, marked by occasions and events and obligations. So I could easily allow myself to get swept away in the frenzy, without really noticing.
Or.
Instead I could remember about wonder. I could stop and say wow. I mean, just looking at that list makes me giddy. There are soooo many opportunities this month to look for, and discover, wonder. Even better, to create wonder-full moments. To find all the “extra” contained within the daily ordinary. To celebrate, with gratitude, life and all its delicious invitations to show up. I’m so grateful for this list of opportunities
And as Brother David Steindl-Rast said “It is not joy that makes us grateful; it’s gratitude that makes us joyful.”
Yes, May will be joyful, and wonder-full, indeed.
Now, your May lineup might not look so occasion-filled as mine, although we share at least a few of those occasions. But your May does have 31 days. Just like mine. What will you do with them?
How can you create for yourself a wonder-full May?
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