Psalms 128:1-6: in context

This short psalm pictures the blessedness of the one who fears the LORD. Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways, it begins. Such a person will eat the fruit of his own labor; it will be well with him. It pictures a home with a fruitful marriage and children like young olive shoots around the table, and it prays God's blessing from Zion, the good of the city, and the sight of one's children's children, and peace. It is a portrait of an ordinary life, quietly blessed, lived in the fear of the LORD.

The blessedness this psalm describes is notable for how ordinary it is. It does not picture spectacular success, great wealth, or extraordinary achievement. It pictures the quiet goods of a well-lived ordinary life: honest work enjoyed, the fruit of one's labor eaten, a home and family, the peace of daily life, the sight of grandchildren, all lived in the fear of the LORD. This is not the stuff of headlines; it is the deep, unspectacular blessedness of an ordinary faithful life ordered around God. And the psalm holds it up as truly blessed, the good and happy life. There is something worth recovering here, in an age that measures blessing by the extraordinary. We are tempted to think that a blessed life must be a remarkable one, full of achievement, wealth, or acclaim, and to overlook the quiet goods of an ordinary faithful life, honest work, love, home, daily peace. The psalm reorients us: the truly blessed life is the one lived in the fear of the LORD, and its blessings are often these ordinary, daily goods, gratefully received. The particular pictures the psalm paints, the fruitful marriage, the children, are meant to illustrate the goodness of a God-fearing life, not to set a formula that every faithful person's life must match; not everyone is given a spouse or children, and their blessedness in the fear of the LORD is no less real. The heart of it is the fear of the LORD and the quiet goods that flow from a life ordered around him: work that is meaningful, relationships that are good, a daily peace, gratitude for ordinary mercies. To fear the LORD and walk in his ways is to be positioned for this deep, unspectacular blessedness, the blessing of an ordinary life lived well before God. And it is worth learning to see and be grateful for such blessing, rather than overlooking the daily goods God gives while chasing the extraordinary. Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD; and much of that blessing is found not in the spectacular but in the ordinary goods of a faithful life.

Do I overlook the quiet goods of an ordinary faithful life, honest work, relationships, daily peace, and the mercies of each day, while measuring blessing by the extraordinary, or can I learn from this psalm to see the deep blessedness of a life lived in the fear of the LORD, and to be grateful for the ordinary goods that flow from walking in his ways?