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There will be giveaways, take-aways, special guests, a couple conference calls & lots of interactions with others. Together, we are going to get our time managed & our homes in order!!! Join us! (Sorry–this will only take place on Facebook & not on this site. But it is simple to get an account. Learn how here.)

Clapping for the winners of the recent giveaways:

The Starbucks card from the Move It & Lose It Weight Loss Wednesday post: Savannah; comment left May 4 at 10:43 a.m.

The book Fashioned by Faith by Rachel Lee Carter (She decided to giveaway two! Thanks!) Cathy Hardy & Kristi: comment left May 6 at 6:08 a.m.

And the Mother’s Day weekend giveaway: Leisa Mayberry

Winners- send your home addresses to me at karen@proverbs31.org & be sure to mention what you won so I don’t mix it up!

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Mundane:

1. Lacking interest or excitement; dull.

2. Of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one.

Does the description fit? Of your life I mean.

At times do you sense the world parading by living their exciting, fulfilling or important lives? While you? You are tossing another load of laundry in the washer, clipping another coupon to try to make the ever-further ends come a little closer to meeting, heading off to the same old work or you are wiping something; a counter, a runny nose or baby’s bottom.

Again.

In my mother’s day, “keeping up with the Joneses” was a temptation only when chatting over the fence with a neighbor (who had a better house) or bumping into a fellow PTA member (who drove a nicer car).

Now? Now the Joneses parade by us hourly on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and websites; on reality TV or HGTV; at church and at the mall.

They post joyful statuses, while we process yet another trial.

They announce exciting news, while we keep at the same grind as yesterday—- the unexciting familiar.

They are connecting with important people and trekking off on exciting outings, while we peer in through a distant, dim screen.

But does this have to be?

No it does not.

We could unplug and hide.

We could try to capture an exciting life too. Maybe get on a reality show.

Make more money to be able to afford a luxury or two.

We could change something, right?

Yes, we could. The most important change could really happen.

A change in our perspective.

This is a truth God has been driving home to me for years.

I first learned about it 20 nearly years ago as a young mom by reading a quote from him. It declared, “Wherever you are….be all there.”

I’ve talked about my struggle with it it here.

And I’ve had wonderful role models who lived it like her & her & now her.

However, I am still a struggling student of this seemingly ironic truth: if you develop thankfulness, look for God in the moment and wherever you are you really purpose to really “be all there”, you’ll unearth a treasured jewel; a startling discovery.

The life you’ve always wanted….is the one you already live.

We’re going to talk more about this next week when my newest friend in this journey, whom I’ve discovered was a cyber friend all along, will join us. And she’ll be bringing the fruit of her thankfulness, put to pen.

For now, will you try it? Wherever you are, be all there.

And be thankful.

It transforms the mundane into the magical. And it made one ordinary mom’s Mothers Day a delight.

Grilled chicken brats, slow cooked beans and slopping, spilling iced tea mixed up by a 13-year-old in a bright new summer pitcher he picked out just for mom at the grocers.

A hug from a sun-kissed, 16-year-old left-handed pitcher upon his arrival back on Michigan soil. He stepped off the airplane and my mommy prayers for safe sporting travel ceased. The sight of Nike shorts & a baseball cap atop his strawberry blond head as he planted a kiss on my check in front of hundreds of travelers. What queen can buy these pleasures?

A handwritten card from my far away 19-year-old mirror of me. A $5 bill fell out ( “treat yourself to a latte, mom”) and tears fell from my eyes.

A husband who hugged, grilled, mowed the lawn and quietly cleaned up the kitchen. His wordless ways shout love.

And an afternoon outing with my nearly-80-year-old mother. Resale shops. Coffee. Intentional questions about her youth and her heritage. Homemade blackberry crisp. Her favorite. Worth staying up late to bake.

Mundane or magic?

The choice is ours! What say you?

Magical Blessings,