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?
Magnificent
“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?
Beyond Imagination
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?
In the Wrong
“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Alexander Pope
What have you learned from being in the wrong?
Washing Feet
The Christian scriptures describe Jesus washing the feet of his disciples during his final week. The symbolism is clear—no one, however exalted, is above the nitty gritty work of kindness to our neighbors. And no one, however grungy they might be, is below deserving that kindness.
What unglamorous acts of kindness do you offer?