Simple Pleasure????????????

About a week ago a friend of mine asked me, "What is your idea of a "simple pleasure"? I responded, "Sitting in front of a warm fireplace enjoying a piece of Apple Pie topped with Vanilla Ice Cream." (This response would probably explain why I still have my Christmas Tree up. We don't have a fireplace and I just love the way it lights up the room at night. While it lacks the amount of heat a fireplace provides, I truly enjoy wrapping up in my Snuggie, in my favorite corner of the couch, with a mug of hot tea, cocoa, or coffee and gazing at the lights on the Christmas Tree).

Then......................

On Friday evening I enjoyed what I would have considered to be another "simple pleasure"; a medium white pizza from Ledo's with Alfredo sauce, chicken, black olives and bell peppers. (Dutch always calls my pizza a salad.....he thinks that I don't appreciate just a real slice of pizza or as he prefers, a cheese pizza with extra cheese). Yum, yum, yummy!!!!!!!

But then...........................

With the recent tragedy in Haiti, I realized that a great deal of my "simple pleasures" are sitting right in front of my face. (Then I began to recognize that the response I gave my friend was both selfish and self-centered). See, the "simple pleasures" described above, hot apple pie and pizza, are all things I can pay for whenever my taste buds yearn to be fulfilled. However, the "pleasure" of watching my kids play and seeing my husband smile are the things some people have lost, or constantly long for, and I sometimes take for granted. While children and love are two instances, in some peoples lives, that are far from being "simple",

they're the pleasures that God has blessed me with........and I only have to open my eyes to appreciate them.

Signed,

Redefining My Simple Pleasures