This morning I left my house and drove down the same
familiar roads I drive down nearly every day. Suddenly, I felt disoriented.
Nothing around me looked familiar.
I had two thoughts: Did
I make a wrong turn? and Wow, it’s
really beautiful here.
I wasn’t lost and I reached my destination without incident,
but that moment of unawareness, or maybe complete awareness, left me thinking.
Sometimes we become so complacent with what is around us that we fail to see it.
It’s a lot like marriage. Married couples get lost in a hive of daily
routine. We become so used to one another that we hardly even see each other.
It is worth that moment of disorientation to make us step back, to really see,
and realize that we are indeed not lost, but in the middle of something really
beautiful and as exceptional as it is familiar.
