Simple Pleasures
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Monday, November 16, 2009 12:00 PM
I was on a women’s retreat this weekend and a short portion of the day focused on some of the women sharing their favorite “simple pleasures”—little things they do that they love and take delight in.
I loved hearing what these women had to say. An older woman loves playing cards once a week with a group of friends. Another woman looks forward to her weekly trip to the gourmet grocers where she buys a very small portion of really good coffee and a smidge of candy—then she goes home to enjoy it. There was a woman who plays the flute, someone who has a rose garden, and the woman who takes her elderly mother, who lives with her, to see all the swollen creeks in the area after it rains. (Of course, I could really identify with the gal who said when her boys were very young, her favorite moment was using the restroom without interruption!)
The retreat was wonderful, but that short bit in particular gave me so much to ponder. What are my simple pleasures? What are the little moments in my day or week that I really look forward to? We really can find as many (or as few) as we allow ourselves.
For me, I look forward to those few minutes each afternoon when the light across my living room floor is just so. If Henry is napping, I sit quietly and read or think or spend a moment in prayer. Other simple pleasures include our daily walk, warm clothes out of the dryer, and those afternoons when the boys are outside playing and I meet up with my mom or dad at the back fence and we chat, even for a minute.
What about you? What are your simple pleasures?
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