Live in the Moment

“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.” -Anna Quindlen (Loud and Clear [2004], 10–11)


The above quote, along with this post from another blog I read, has sent me into a strange, emotional state-of-mind.


Lord, please give me mindfulness of each moment. These days are fleeting, I am fully aware.