“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.”
― Harper Lee
What good advice did you get growing up?
Whether your Christmas is an all-out production, a small celebration, or not really your holiday, there is room in this day for a small sweet spot of joy, a gentle moment of open-heartedness, a mouthful of delight.
What is one small joy from your Christmas?
Sometimes the world’s delightfulness is a perfect match for your willingness to be delighted, and beauty reaches toward you even as you reach toward it.
What in this beautiful world is delighting you these days?
“Learning
To believe you are magnificent.
And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent.
Enough labor for one human life.”
― Czesław Miłosz
At this point in your life, are you learning that you are magnificent, or that you are not?
Perhaps the world of things you have imagined does not extend to a child in a grass skirt hugging and being hugged by a sloth. “There are more things on heaven and earth than you have dreamt of,” so there’s no worry that we will ever run out of wonders.
What has delighted you by being so far outside of what you had imagined?
