Welcome. Today for Spiritual Journey Thursday we are sharing thoughts about Irene Latham's One Little Word for 2016: Delight. Click here to read her original post about choosing the word.
from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
from Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Wilbur tagged along at Fern's heels. When she waded into the brook, Wilbur waded in with her. He found the water quite cold - too cold for his liking. So while the children swam and played and splashed water at each other, Wilbur amused himself in the mud along the edge of the brook, where it was warm and moist and delightfully sticky and oozy.
Delight requires me to be present in the moment. It requires me to take a bit of time and decide where I want to be. Maybe the water is a bit too cold for me at the moment. It requires me to my find the wonderful, sticky, oozy joy of wallowing in the all that is best about this moment.
ankle deep in spring
my toes prod the creek bed
sift cold sand beneath the water's surface
another step sucks my breath into my chest
and I race for sunshine on grass
© Doraine Bennett, 2016
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