It may be harder to keep up with a blog than I thought. Well, here goes my first attempt at coherency. I have thought about this for a few days. I was watching the BYU channel (not something I do often) and they have this little ad where they ask someone to take pictures of anything they see that's good. The one I saw recently surprised me. It was a guy who worked on some sort of building site, or a demolition site not sure which. But he started taking pictures of things you normally wouldn't think of as necessarily good. A fork lift, wrenches all lined up on a peg board, a huge beam being rolled to the ground. This is the second one I've seen and it caused me to think what is good? Maybe all that is good is not necessarily beauty or gives pleasure in some way. Could there be infinite amounts of good that we aren't willing to take notice of? Like the solid island counter top in my kitchen, the way the tile is laid in my shower, the double yellow lines on the road that keep me from careening to the other side. If there is an infinite amount of good, why do we focus so much on that which is bad? I think some would think that this is a simple minded approach to life, that we can't over look the problems in the world. But that isn't really what I'm trying to get across. I don't think the world is an idyllic place. I'm thinking that my peace of mind and my grattitude to the Lord, could increase ten fold. And that maybe the next time one of my kids is supposedly driving me nuts, I can stop and look for a second and really see what's good. My six year old's beautiful eyes, my 20 month old's cute little toes. I thought about it again today as I was making lunch for my kids. I was dead tired and my normal reaction was starting to be "man I wish I didn't have to do this." But then I thought about how making it is doing something good, something seemingly ordinary but yet not ordinary. It didn't seem like a burden to me any more, it seemed like a privilege. Is there really anything we do for each other that is ordinary? I am going to challenge myself to constantly look for all that's good. If by chance anyone reads this and has time to comment, I would love to hear from you what is good. Look around you and let me know!