Finding Purpose

I must confess that today has been an average day with no marked excitement. It was spent ferrying children around, watching football, doing some ironing, sitting in an airport, making food... Not exactly inspiring and not really involving anything that I could say sparked a sense of newness in my day. I felt almost trapped by the mundaneness of it all and then I felt guilty as I should be treasuring this time with my children and my husband!

So what to write about? I found this photo of this stunning tree at the Botanic Gardens that i took last week just before my husband's operation and I've made myself see its beauty and appreciate how inspiring it is. It is old and solid and uncomplaining. And majestic! 

I want to sit on the bench beside it and be still and daydream about what could be and work on finding purpose in my days so that each one feels a day well lived whatever I spend it doing. This tree seems a place where you could do this.

What inspires you? What gives you purpose? Do we need to be more content with the everyday things and just appreciate that we are alive to experience these things - even the mundane ones? Something to ponder...