Beautiful Moments

Today I sat down to check my emails, and to creep Facebook, and I didn't expect anything really out of the ordinary to happen. But then it did...

I watched this video.

And in 22 short minutes, something extraordinary happened.

This video tells the story of a 17 year old boy who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. But instead of falling apart and letting the reality of life kill him, he let that same reality cause him to live, and to live every single day to the fullest. He inspired everyone around him to live life for every moment. To cherish the time you have while you have it. To be who it is that you were meant to be now, not somewhere down the line.

I want that to be my story. I want people to see the beauty in life just by spending time with our family. I want to enjoy every moment that I am given.

Life has been particularly stressful the last few months. Figuring out finances and life and what is happening next, and when life feels like its moving so fast that you dont have time to stop and think let alone look around, its so easy to miss moments. Moments that are creating you. Moments that are so beautiful that it would be a shame to miss them. And so much of life lately has been made up of beautiful moments. Moments that are defining who it is that we are becoming. Decisions that are forming that future of the Morris family. And I dont want to miss those. I want to cherish each beautiful moment that I live, because those moments can be stolen, before we even realize they are gone.

Last week I came home from work and Nic had prepared an evening in honor of me. He made me my favorite snacks, he gave me a massage. We watched a movie that I picked. We laughed and talked and laughed some more. That was a moment. A truly beautiful moment. This past saturday at Recital Rehearsal for work, one of my three year olds came running up to me at the end of their hour and hugged my leg and said "Bye Miss Destiny. I love you!" Another little girl was sitting next me a little later in the evening and she slowly leaned over and rested her head on my arm and just stayed there. Those. Those were beautiful moments. Moments that I cherish. And I never want to miss moments like that.

So today I experience something extraordinary. I learned what it means to live. What it means to enjoy your life. What is means to love. I learned that life is what you make it. And if you dont make it something, it ends up being nothing. Life is a beautiful and I never want to miss the life that I have the opportunity to live. Because life is a truly beautiful thing.

"Life is really just beautiful moments, one right after the other." ~Zach Sobiech

Until next time...