The Lightness of Being

You know what I love? Those awakening moments when you really do appreciate that all you have in life is good.  That you truly do have a reason to be grateful for rising every morning and making the most out of every day.  Those moments before the pesky logistics and gnawing realities that life throws at you begin to absorb into your subconscious telling you to be a grown up and accountable.  Sometimes I force all such thoughts from my mind; just to enjoy those beautiful pure moments and to revel in them for as long as I possibly can.                                                                                        

Those moments when EVERYTHING is a wonder and EVERYONE is a blessing.  I think that’s what God intended each and every one of us to feel…deeply, and as often as possible. I think he wants us to feel the lightness that those moments bring.  But I think he wants us to know them as more than just moments; but lifetimes.  How ideal would that be?                                                                  

A lifetime of lightness.  I guess that would be the utopian existence that we all secretly search for.  Don’t we all strive for that kind of existence?  When all those moments of lightness accumulate into days, weeks….months….and finally years; on their way to being a lifetime.  Who isn’t working toward that kind of a life?                                                                                                            

The problem with those magnificent moments?  I have yet to figure out how to make them last for very long…let alone a lifetime.  Maybe that’s why they seem like little gifts when they happen….a “specialer,”  as it were, from SOMEONE who doesn’t want us to forget that we all are given a gift, and to make the most of it….even if it only comes to us in moments.  How we nurture those moments…can last a lifetime. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Have a warm and Happy Thanksgiving; and may you have a cornucopia of “specialer” moments.   -Joy -xo- 

Comments

[janet]

I like the word specialer.
Thanks Joy for your kindness. You are a truly beautiful person. Why can't the world be full of u's.

[Barbara Ray]

Thanks, Joy, you expressed this perfectly. I, too, have these wonderful moments more often now. I am grateful for thoughtful people like you in my life.

[buffy]

It's the small stuff that bogs us down, and we're not supposed to sweat the small stuff. I think I know the moments you mean. Like you, I wish they stretched out into days. Peaceful time in the garden, enjoying a favorite CD, accomplishing a pleasant chore, or an interesting conversation with God..... All we can do is to keep that goal in mind, and hope to keep working our way toward it.

Happy Thanksgiving to you, too Joy!

[Claude]

Lovely rainbow! Did you take that photo? There are hardly ever any rainbows in Paris, and whenever there is one, I'm not fast enough with my camera ;)

The thing is not to let ourselves be bogged down by those other tedious moments. But without the tedious and painful things, would recognise those blessed moments?
And you, dear Joy, have the talent for recognising those blessed moments.

[Winston]

Beautiful, serene thoughts...

You started by speaking of "awakening moments", which I hope you did not mean to be taken literally. My "awakening moments" are usually complete panic, stuggling in my still groggy condition to reach the porcelain vessel prior to my bladder declaring a coup and spilling forth...

I choose to think of "awakening moments" in the way that Thoreau did:

"To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me."

[June]

Lovely thoughts, Joy. This uplifted me and I needed that .

Thanks,

Junie

[Liz]

I guess that will be heaven then. The lightness that will be solid enough to hang onto, rather than the intangible lightness that lets us hope, and gives us dreams.

[Rain]

That is a great thought and the trick is not letting the next thing that happens change it. It's not easy but a great goal

[Merle]

Dear Joy ~ Some lovely thoughts there, thank you for sharing. We can choose to think about the happy loving times, and put away anything
negative. And therefore make those
moments last longer. Hope you are doing well Joy. Take care, Love,
Merle.

[MaryB]

Beautiful. Very carpe de moment. It's important to realize those little gifts of grace are often fleeting and we need to appreciate them when they come along.

Happy Thanksgiving, Joy!

[Alan G]

Beautiful thoughts Joy. Know this is a particularly difficult time and I wish you and your family the best this Thanksgiving. It will indeed be a time to nurture the loving moments of times past.

[Marilyn]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Joy. This post made me think...because I realized reading it that I rarely have those moments. When I wake, my very first thoughts are almost always stressful (workplace dread, money worries, fear created by procrastination over stuff I should have done, etc.) and it's been that way for...well, ever. Need to work on that...need to carve time for those moments beyond the first moments on a weekend morning when I think with glee, "Oh, YES, no work today!" :)

[miffy]

Thank you "specialer" Joyful...
for reminding me of those moments so often buried by the "others"...
Happy, Happy Thanksgiving my friend.
Love you

[joared]

Here's wishing you lots of "specialer" moments and that this Thanksgiving is a day filled with them for you.

[Peggy]

Have a great Thanksgiving Joy! I hope yours is filled with love and PIE!

Love Peggy

[Rain]

Delightful post. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours