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The moment I pull away from my computer and take a deep breath, look out my window and see the sky and the trees, take another deep breath, stretch and think about what I want to make for dinner, and then the stretch feels so good in my body that I take another breath and feel so full of good feelings from the breath and the stretch and the seeing that my heart opens a little more, and as my heart opens and widens throughout the afternoon, as I take my time to breathe and see, I end up having much more room in my heart for my loving husband when he comes home, smiles wide at seeing me, and we talk and share and discuss what we would like to eat, and he gives me a kiss and I feel like his smile is the smile of a thousand faces around the world in that moment, all smiling and seeing and breathing and feeling how contentment comes from having no one thing at all, but simply having a moment of being human {been thinking about a quote from Jack Kornfield lately about things and how "...an accumulation of things as a religion of meaning..." dictates our lives in the Western world}.
This is my most beautiful thing these days. An open heart with someone I love, someone in need of love, someone open to loving me in return. I've had other most beautiful things in my life at other times, to be sure. And it is fun to imagine those, too. But I wouldn't want to limit it to any one thing, even though it's fun to imagine how the one thing contains all things most beautiful and majestic and brave. Then beauty starts to become like your breath, 20,000 moments of it a day.
Fiona Robyn's call to have a blogsplash where we all share our most beautiful things is one of those most beautiful things, too, don't you think? She is offering her novel The Most Beautiful Thing for free today. Visit the link to learn more. And read more blog posts about beautiful things here.
What is your most beautiful thing?
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