Moments

Time changes when you are married. It is something which I did not fully understand until experiencing it. I have heard it said when you have children that the days are long and years are short. Even before children, perhaps before marriage, this seems to hold true. Perhaps this is more a truth of life.

The days are long, the years are short. There are an incalculable number of impactful, beautiful, and simple moments we experience yet seem to dissolve into the monotony of the everyday. A cup of coffee whilst overlooking a beautiful view of nature. The taste of an incredible meal. Crying innocently at the beauty of a song. Sitting on the couch with the one you love, caring for nothing in the moment but her.

Perhaps it is in these moments that we can find a semblance of slow, peace, and in their embrace make the years slow down. Moments are not often just experienced, they are created. They require intentionality. There is much beauty in the intentional. We need look no further than the world around us, to look within and at one another for proof of this.

For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.

Psalm 139:13-14

To fully embrace these moments, must we recognize we are in them?

To slow down must we see?