Still

Beauty of the Moment

            Life is a challenge. It can be exhausting as we head down the tumultuous path that hopefully will someday lead us to happiness. Routines get old, pretty soon we lose sight of what’s true.

It’s like riding a carousel, the more it goes around and around, the more things seem to blend together into one big blur. The flashing lights of the ride persuading you to get on, the children running up and down the middle of the ride, anxiously choosing which horse they will choose.Just for a moment childhood's sheer delicacy-

Innocence.

The wonder of living each day in eager expectation of what it will bring.

The beauty found in every single moment of our lives, treasuring the very air we breathe for, “who says we have been promised tomorrow?”

Our time here is short, for it is like a speck of dust in the sands of time, and gone in the simple wink of an eye.

Have you ever watched a home movie or looked at old photos, and felt the exact same way you felt the day the picture was taken? Time is the only thing that changes, our feelings may transform but the memory of that emotion will forever remain there. There are so millions of miracles happening every day.

Have you ever met someone and felt as if you’ve known them all your life ? Encounters that seem to have been etched into time- because there are no words to describe the profound connection that exists.. These memories, far too precious and significant to be forgotten, become moments forever engraved into a soul.

Oh the beauty of the moment!! Looking out my living room window and watching the luminous sun rise amidst towering birch trees- peace.

Have you ever stayed up all night just to watch the stars shimmer in the humongous sky above us, and to watch the majesty of the moon setting as a new day breaks?

Your heart almost stops for a quick second as you take in the ABSOLUTE splendor that is before your eyes- beauty.

Ever sat on an ocean shore and contemplated on what Fabulous Maker this God is, to create and do so much for us?

 How He thought of every single detail- from the temperature of the water, to the foam riding atop each waves.

 Or the different hues of blue varying throughout the entire body of water; each containing new depths awaiting to be explored.

Oh, the joy you feel within you, to experience and accept such grandiose gifts! Your heart wants nothing more than to lift your arms up, praising The Creator; whom all things worship.

Equally as mystifying is the connection between Our Maker and each of us. How He speaks to each individual differently. How our spirits leap within us when his reflection is noticed in the eyes of someone  else. 

The connection made with just a smile no matter where our paths take us, smiling speaks volumes louder than most words. It welcomes you to smile too, to follow.

 Follow, to a common place, where both hearts meet, exchanging sorrows with one another.

Their afflictions they share, for more noble a cause there cannot be, but to simply relieve the other from some of the weight they’ve been bearing for so long. To give them even just a single ray of hope, a small peek at the extraordinary within the ordinary.

To point them towards the higher road, underneath the rubble.  Showing them the sacred within the simple; hoping they’ll choose to accept this invitation. The invitation into something far greater than their finite minds will ever be able to fathom. 

A place where selflessness is not in question; it’s the only way to live. It is a moment by moment occurrence that fashions the mind’s eye to grasp reality as beautiful, and introduces you to ¨The Beauty of the moment.¨

The beauty of the moment is powerful.  It is constant, yet converting.

It unwraps the rugged heaviness of life’s burdens and trials, concealing nothing more and nothing less than two wooden beams conjoined in the middle -forming a cross. The crosses we each bear in our daily sufferings, trials, and tribulations.  It drowns negativity out, replacing it with the symphonies of perseverance, fortitude, prudence, and self- giving

humility.

Leaving songs of hope resounding in the air... oh timeless beauty! For what better gift  is there than to find the Beauty of the Moment.? To stumble upon it and recognize it’s excellence everyday. To see the vastness in each and every little grain of sand trickling down that hourglass.