Today around 3 pm I noticed some dark clouds rolling into the neighborhood.  For a moment I thought we might have a thunderstorm, or at least some rain.  Instead, we got wind and lots of it.  The gusts were strong enough to knock the power out at the church for awhile, and they were also sufficient to bring the temperature down about ten degrees in less than a half hour.

It was a cold front, of course, that made its way through the area, and for this I am very grateful.  Once it gets over 80 degrees, I am too hot.  Give me days in 70s or even 60s over hot, muggy ones anytime.  Even now, at a little past midnight, I am enjoying the cool breeze blowing through my window and giving thanks that I will need no AC or fan tonight while I sleep.

It is a small blessing, but sometimes a small blessing is all we need to get through the day.  Sometimes a small blessing can even change our whole perspective on life.  The effect of a small blessing can, in fact, be anything but small.

My friend Jim knows one of my little weirdnesses that I also count as another small blessing when I can pull it off (I think he calls it a “small, good thing”).  You see, I drink my coffee with cream, or more specifically, fat free half and half.  What I love to do is to pour my coffee in the cup, get it swirling with a spoon, and then, when the moment is just right and speed of the swirl is just so, I pour in the cream.  If I have timed it well, the cream mixes with the coffee in such a way that I have a miniature hurricane on the surface of my drink . . . a veritable tempest in coffee cup, so to speak.  It just makes me smile to see my mini-storm of coffee and cream moving around, and for just a moment, or maybe two, all is right with the world.  I am sure I am not the only one who has ever done this, but if you haven’t, I encourage you to try it.  You will smile too.  I guarantee it.

Anyway, regardless of what they might be for you, I wish you a day filled with small blessings, or at least a couple of them, or even just one.  After all, just one might be enough.