From The Storyteller
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Hello All: This month's smile and ah ha moment still has me smiling. Enjoy. Doug
Running Looking out the kitchen window I see “K”, age 4.8 by her count, and “O”, age 3 by her count, barefoot and running fast enough to cause me to hold my breath fearing a hard-landing fall. “K “is in her Cinderella dress leading the way, and “O”, sporting a bright red Superman cape, doing her best to keep up. “O’s” mom is not far behind. Watching this I heard myself thinking, “Don’t Run”, which I know kids hear constantly. I’m smiling as I think of how ineffective "don't run" is with kids. Knowing they run almost everywhere, naturally caused me to ask, “Why do kids feel the need to always run?” Immediately I had the answer. They run because they feel they’ll miss "something" important if they don’t. The word we give to that “something” is life. There are things to discover in their (our) amazing world right around every corner for them. This is where “my bad” pops up in my head. While they’re seeing “Awe and Wonder” everywhere, far too often I’m only seeing, “Same-O-Same-O”. Later there’s tiny “O” standing in front of her tall, very strong father, without any fear at all, loudly demanding that he let her stay outside past bedtime. She keeps demanding as he carries her in. Now I’m reminded of those days when I would hear, “It’s getting dark, time to come in”, and I can still hear myself yelling back, “but we’re just starting to have fun.” I accept “ordinary wear and tear” has made me less resistant to “time to come in”, but that does not keep me from enjoying the world and the life with which I’ve been gifted. Little children remind me that savoring life is a gift for today. Moral: Children revealing truth - amazing. |