Today is day 3 of our 30 Day Seeking Moments Challenge! I hope you all feel welcomed to join me, in whatever public or private way is most comfortable to you during this next month. This is an exercise that my soul has deeply needed in this crazy world we live in and I want to gift this opportunity to you also if you’re able, so that we can cause a ripple effect of gratitude by learning from our own experiences and also absorbing the aha moments of others. We can become companions for one another on this journey, as friends or strangers who haven’t yet met. There is a standing invitation this month, from me to you, in this crazy time in our world to take a pause, a minute, a second of reflection to seek out a moment, your regular, run of the mill, every day moment. Just one out of the many we are gifted each day. There are millions of moments that whiz by us each day and move from present to past at a million miles a second…but for 30 days, I’m inviting you to find in just one moment a day: a deeper meaning, a minute of appreciation, gratitude, joy, awareness, a lesson. They are always there for us, but often we are so busy or bogged down in our own thoughts or worries or emotions that we forget to even see that they are there. I am only three days in and I am already feeling such a different, thankful beat in my heart for all that I am so blessed and lucky to have and see and do… in spite of all the madness.
Today, I had a few really lovely moments…
My 5 year old out of the clear blue thanked me “for raising her and making every day so special” (I. Mean.)
We spent the day outside with my aunt, uncle, and cousins, diving deep and laughing and sipping White Claws in the sunshine.
We saw dolphins swim and jump out of the sea at sunset.
But my most memorable moment was delivered to me by my 10 year old son, as we walked 20 blocks home with chairs on our backs and baseball gloves under our arms and coolers hanging from our shoulders. He shouted, in awe, pointing at the sandy earth, wet from the ocean’s recent high tide bath, as it had just receded. In its reflection, he noted, you could see the clouds. “So funny, sometimes you can even look down, to see up.”
Look down to see up.
So. TRUE!!
Sometimes we really do need to shift our thinking (just as I actively am right now in the context of this challenge), to see what is right in front of us, just from a different angle. Appreciating the beauty of seeing the same every day stuff, just flipped on its head. Or through a different lens. Look down to to see up. To level up. To feel up. To pick ourselves up.
Join us! We are all just out here trying to look down to see up. And it feels really really good. ✨
Care to share your thoughts?