247E-Book Story: Being and Breathing

Being and Breathing


One warm evening many years ago…

After spending nearly every waking minute
with Angel for eight straight days, I knew that I
had to tell her just one thing. So late at night,
just before she fell asleep, I whispered it in
her ear. She smiled – the kind of smile that
makes me smile back –and she said, “When I’m
seventy-five and I think about my life and what
it was like to be young, I hope that I can
remember this very moment.”

A few seconds later she closed her eyes and
fell asleep. The room was peaceful – almost
silent. All I could hear was the soft purr of her
breathing. I stayed awake thinking about the
time we’d spent together and all the choices in
our lives that made this moment possible. And
at some point, I realized that it didn’t matter
what we’d done or where we’d gone. Nor did
the future hold any significance.

All that mattered was the serenity of the
moment.

Just being with her and breathing with her.
The moral: We must not allow the clock, the
calendar, and external pressures to rule our
lives and blind us to the fact that each
individual moment of our lives is a beautiful
mystery and a miracle – especially those moments we spend in the presence of a loved one.

Your turn…
How do you think differently today than you
once did? What life experience or realization
brought on a significant change in your way of
thinking? Please leave a comment below and
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