There are moments, oh so brief and fleeting, during everyday happenings, that connect us to the infinite.
It’s right at peak extension of our morning stretch and just as we scratch the precise location of a butt itch.
It’s the moment when the temperature of our shower hits just the right degree and just as we exhale calmly from feeling most refreshed.
It’s that first sip of coffee, brewed exactly to our liking, and the moment our nose catches its aroma as we close our eyes and carefully breathe it in.
It’s our hands cupping warm ceramic in frigid air or the feel of cool water moving mouth to throat to stomach on a sweltering hot day.
It’s that moment during a hug when we’re pulled in tighter or the moment during a kiss when you both decide to lean back in.
Rather than rush through these moments in an effort to get more quickly to the next… What if we lingered there instead?
What if instead of taking these moments for granted because they’re less than .01% of our day… we made them something we appreciated with as close to 100% of our attention while we’re there?
Maybe our days wouldn’t feel like such a blur. Maybe the moments wouldn’t all vanish behind the off putting comment, criticism, or some kind of fear.
Maybe what’s happening in the .01% is really the only thing that ever is happening?
…Maybe it’s just about us being there.