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Look for Magic in the Mundane

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I was on my way home a few days ago and as I neared my village, there ahead of me on the road was this tractor with an attached cart filled with garden debris being taken to the landfill. The traffic was moving quickly in the other lane making it difficult to overtake so my best bet was to drive behind it until I reached my turn off. There were two men, the driver and with him, another gentleman sitting on a makeshift seat on top of the cart. They bounced along at what to them was a jiggy pace but for the vehicles that were rapidly lining up behind me, it was a turtle’s crawl. And these days people are impatient. They drive fast and overtake recklessly, all in a hurry to get nowhere quickly.
So here was me, second in the motorcade behind these two kings. I felt their energy that is why I referred to them as kings. They were happy, rich, and peaceful, and it appeared there was no other place else that they’d rather be than driving their tractor filled with debris to the landfill.
The positive dancing energy emanating from them, wafting upwards and outwards to their loyal subjects following closely behind, created magic to the moment. I was fortunate to catch a whiff of it and it left me enraptured.

How often do we allow ourselves to get caught up in the magic of the mundane? Are we so busy looking for a choir of angels to appear from the sky trumpeting the Hallelujah Chorus that we miss the joys in the simple things?

The first fresh breath of air in the morning as it enters our rested bodies,
The smell of our coffee percolating on the stove, enticing us to take that first sip,
The purr of our car engine’s as it promised no trouble today,
The morning’s greeting coming from a stranger’s lip.

The feel of our office chair that is now well-formed to the shape of our buttocks,
Or the kiss of a cool wind under sweaty armpits as we work outdoors in the sun,
The glimpse of a rainbow as it arched the sky just so,
The happy laughter of children, using the last days of summer for fun.

There is mystery in the mundane,
Magic in the ordinary,
No need to look far to experience it,
It’s all around already.