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Gifts of a Moment

July 20, 2016 by Gindi Leave a Comment

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There are quiet moments I’ve held more precious the past few days. Gifts packaged in small moments sprinkled across my days like a present from Heaven.

I stepped outside Monday evening and the sunset had painted the sky an array of colors which backlit the tree sitting beside my driveway. I climbed into the back of Bray’s pick up truck to snap pictures to hold onto the moment.

I woke early this morning and drove into the sunrise.  It was blinding and beautiful.  A wise friend of mine had unexpectedly been available for a short notice breakfast.  We sat at the corner table in a gorgeous space and traded insight into the other’s present challenges.  Perspective and laughter and understanding – a gift to start my day.

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One of my dearest friends and I have been in a text frenzy the past several days.  We are so much alike and are able to appreciate the nuttiness of each other’s Virgo-planner-Type A chick sensibility, and our husbands get a break. She is a gift and her texts always crack me up.

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My daughter asked me sit with her on the couch after dinner so we could face one another as she offered a play by play of her morning camp activities.  I was completely enchanted by each word.

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My son, while we were curled up together at bedtime last night, said he loved me a google times a google times a google and back.  I told him I loved him the same, “plus two.”  He laughed and laughed.  We went on like that with his exuberant profession of his love and my plus two’s for many iterations.

I remember, years ago, reading Ann Voskamp’s One Thousand Gifts.  It was a gift then but has come back to the forefront of my mind in these challenging, and often dark, times.  She frames it as a dare to live fully right where you are.

I’m trying not to take ONE moment for granted.  I am trying to be ever thankful for the moments I have with my kids and my husband and my friends and the beauty that surrounds me when I step outside, even in our hot Houston July.  I don’t want to miss it.  I don’t want to forget all this goodness.

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