TODAY'S GIFT - SEPTEMBER 2014

[MajestyJo]

Friday, September 26, 2014

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
—Antoine de Saint Exupery

It is hard to imagine being really joyful and excited without our family and friends. We can imagine a birthday party with no one but us attending. Even if we got many gifts, we would feel empty if there were no one around with whom to share our excitement.

Our joy comes from each other. Even the hard times furnish us with wonderful memories for later in life. We share the good and the bad, and the rewards of both. When our lives together seem too difficult, when it's too hard to share, too crowded to think, when there are too many disagreements, we can find comfort by looking at one another once again and seeing all the ways we are truly alike, and what we share every moment that we sometimes take for granted--our food, our thoughts, the very air we breathe.

What are the things we share right now?

So grateful when people share, they trigger a memory, something else that I had forgotten and bring up something else that was so deeply buried, it hadn't floated to the top, and even when I dug, it eluded me. I found myself through others. For them, I am grateful.