Simplify. Savor. Treasure

The power that words hold; the feelings that they can bring up inside of you. A phrase that speaks such truth to your heart. A single word that has so much meaning.

Simplify. Your life, your day, your expectations. Take a breath and readjust your mindset, go back to the most basic point of your life. What is all that you truly need?

Savor. Breathe in this moment; this very moment right now, not the one that just passed or the one that is to come. Soak it in, revel in all the feels. Find these moments throughout the busy days where you savor; these are what you will remember.

Treasure. This ties in with the savoring, treasuring the moments. Holding them special for what they are and allowing them to fill your heart.

After the week of being away from my family and grieving with a dear friend who has suffered such a huge loss, these words are speaking directly to me. The normalcy of our everyday is just so normal. I wake up every morning, expecting it to be just another day of daily life. I’ll wave goodbye to two kids on that yellow school bus. I’ll spend a few minutes snuggling the other two on the couch before we start our day. Meals will be eaten during the day, naps will be taken, cleaning and reading and whatever other normal things will happen throughout the day. Routines and rhythms have become so natural that I don’t even stop to question them.

Then something like this happens and I view life from a different perspective. I find myself being grateful for the normalness of our everyday. I find myself savoring the everyday. How lucky I am to wake up to just another regular day.

It made me face what is actually most important in my life, and to make the time for those priorities. It made me appreciate what I wasn’t taking the time to be grateful for before.