Linnetontheleaf

I’ve been preoccupied with a work situation today which is really preying on my mind. It will probably blow over and be forgotten quickly but feels major at the moment. I wish I were stronger-minded and could push these intrusive troubled thoughts aside, but I rarely can.
I recently had a little lesson in priorities, however. I had a pretty severe health scare and spent a couple of days anxiously awaiting test result. During that time, I found, nothing else could shake me: all that mattered was that lab report. I barely batted an eye when I dropped my phone in the toilet!
It shouldn’t take worrying about alarming lab results to get one’s priorities straight, but I guess sometimes it helps.

Ever heard a child make an adorable comment which totally changed your view of something?  Seeing things through the wondering eyes of a newer resident of the planet can be refreshing and delightful. Our son was especially good at this when he was little, constantly delivering messages from the new, unfamiliar world which he inhabited.

One day he spotted our parish priest walking through our suburban town. Having never seen him street clothes, only in clerical robes, our son had formed a comical misapprehension, we learned when he excitedly pointed him out to us as ‘the king!’. I also loved his comment when he first glimpsed the New York skyline as we drove towards the city, which was suddenly laid out before us in all its vastness. Gasping in awe, our little boy exclaimed, ‘a castle!’.

I learned so much from hearing these precious comments every day during our son’s young childhood.  They reminded me to continually cultivate a sense of wonder.