Wandering is never a waste of time!!!

Prayer

"Our problem - may I include you? - Is that we 

don't know how to start, how to just close our eyes and let something dance between our hearts and lips, we don't know how to skip across the room only for the joy of the leap.  We walk, we run, but what happens to the skip and its prayer, the gallop, the useless and imaginary way we could move through space, the horses we rode before we knew how to saddle up, before we had opinions about everything and just loved the wind in our faces and the horizon in our eyes."  

Steward Kestenbaum 

It seldom escapes me how seriously I take life.  Earlier in my life I tried most often to connect with people through humor.  I love to laugh.  I love to play.  I love joy.  What I find interesting, or a bummer, is that the healthier I get, the less I laugh.  YKES!!! 

We live in a time when we have so many things that seem so important.  They seem important, because they are, but we are also called to hold up and enjoy the many blessings that surround us.  

Today, I want to offer up the prayer I just found.  My favorite line is: "we don't know how to start, how to just close our eyes and let something dance between our hearts and lips."  

Today I will be the responsible adult that I am blessed to be.  But today I will also find times to wander, body, mind and spirit.  I will try to spend some time with that playful spirit that is also God given and is also me.  

What will you do today?