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"Delight, being another form of love, tends to bless in both directions." - S. Dawn Sievers, 1/12/2014
I wrote the above quote
in a thread on my Facebook wall. The thread was my sharing of a lovely
moment experienced the other day, and to give everyone full context, I will
share it here:
Best moment of the day: driving home from errands, I stopped at a local Walgreen's to pick up a couple of things. Today's weather was springtime warm, so I had on a short sleeved t-shirt and comfy yoga pants. As I walked out of Walgreen's with my purchases, an elderly gentleman was walking in. He smiled at me, swept a courtly bow and said, "If I were some years younger, I would be sparking you, my dear. Any young lady who wears a Snoopy t-shirt with such panache deserves to be wooed, pursued and swooned." Then he winked at me and sailed into the store. I can't recall my heart being that delighted in ages!
*Thank you, kind sir, whomever you are! You did, indeed, swoon me!*
I have experienced this
kind of delightful moment many times in my life, and each one remains steadfast
in my memory. Each moment always brings a smile, as did this most recent
experience.
Life is so short for
each of us. We're given a short span of a lifetime to learn, to grow and
experience so much. And we're asked to cram all of this into the same
existence that is barraged by stress, confusion, fatigue, sensory overload
coming at us from every direction. Work, family, governing our personal
health, taking care of our home, earning a yearly wage to bank away and provide
for our needs....it is no small wonder that many of us go through life on auto-pilot.
I am of the opinion that every single day contains delightful moments
such as the one I shared here, but so many of us are so deeply zoned out, our
senses dulled by that sensory overload, that we fail to recognize them.
I don't know why I do
notice them more than some. I have always been this way, from my
earliest, youngest years. Unusual moments capture my focus....the tiny
ones that vanish in a twinkling of an eye, unless you're looking for them.
And I admit that I tend to lose outward focus on the daily ticking by of
everyday life, so captured am I by these delightful moments. I don't
become completely oblivious to the waking world, mind you, but I do get
distracted momentarily. In the best way possible.
That lovely gentleman
who gifted me with his own sparkle recognized the power of a simple moment.
He was so full of brightness and happiness that he found a wee moment to
share his sparkle with me. I daresay that his life isn't perfect, or
spotless, or without sadness, frustrations and challenges. Yet he made
time in his day to give a complete stranger a moment of delight.
"How beautiful," is what my deepest heart declares.
I believe this is one of
the reasons we sojourn to this Earth School, to embrace an experience where we
are allowed to give voice and expression to Love. We translate the energy
of love into music, into architecture, into farming and gardening, into the
pursuit of excellence of the physical body through athletics and sports, into
the written word in books and poetry, into the visual through movies, dance,
painting, sculpting, weaving and more. We do these things in a human
effort to express what is unspoken inside us, that core of brilliant, white hot
pulsing of wordless Divine Presence.
And sometimes, we express that wordless brilliance with a simple human interaction that produces delight.
Then we share that
simple human interaction, and the delight is experienced in an exponential
manner, touching hearts, tipping lips to smile, and eyes to twinkle. The
courtly manners of that beautiful man came shining right out his heart to
entwine with mine, gifting me with something that is difficult to put into
words. I am attempting that here, yet feel I am falling short. What I do
know is that such courtly manners from an earlier era will always bring delight
to me. I see so little of this type of politesse these days, and when it
is expressed in such a whimsical fashion, it simply must be remembered and
shared so that it inspires others to act on an impulse moment to brighten the
day of another.
It is worth
repeating....
Delight, being another form of love, tends to bless in both directions.
