Since I began my daily blogging regime, I’ve certainly had days when I struggled to come up with something to write.  Today was definitely one of those days.

But as I sat and reviewed my day, I was struck by how fantastically blessed I am.

I woke up.
I woke up in a bed.
I woke up in a comfortable bed.
I woke up in a comfortable bed with clean linens.
I woke up in a comfortable bed with clean linens and a pillow.
I woke up in a comfortable bed with clean linens and a pillow serenaded by the dulcet sounds of my husband’s soft breathing.

My husband of 18 years, the man I’ve been with for my entire adulthood, was sleeping peacefully by my side.  My 40-something husband, who is a black man, who has never been incarcerated, who has graduated from college, who has bested a vast number of statistics for people who happen to have been born black and male rested peacefully by my side.

My existence is a peaceful one.  As I laid in bed listening to my husband breathe, I also listened to the chatter of birds and squirrels while the wind sighed gently.  The only thing that accosted my peace was my neighbor taking out his trash.  I didn’t hear the sounds of gunshots, domestic abuse, shrieking children, or heavy traffic.

I also didn’t hear the sound of my children breathing, but that didn’t disturb my peace.  I take it for granted that I never hear the sound of my children breathing early in the morning.  We live in a house with bedrooms separated by enough distance that our individual small sounds don’t interrupt all of the residents.  My life is so serene that I don’t worry that my children are sleeping outside of my reach.  What an extraordinary amount of comfort I live in that I trust my children are safe and well, even when I can neither see nor hear them.

Just in my first few minutes of wakefulness this morning, I experienced a lifetime of blessings, and I didn’t even name all of them.  I couldn’t even name all of them.  Yet every day, God showers all of these blessings and more on my family and me.

I am wonderfully and fantastically and enormously blessed.