The Sliver of a Glance......

I am inspired by those “Sliver Moments”. The ones that happen at any moment - but usually cause our hearts to fly open and respond in a way that can take our breath away. They can change us so deeply that our lives are never the same after they happen.

I was at a birth recently.  I had the privilege of witnessing one of the sliver moments when a Father glimpses the small roundness of his child’s head as it first appears.  Not the actual physical body, but just the first glance - the tendril of hair that be touched and seen.  

The moment of true reality that awakens in the heard of a Dad who has been waiting for so long to see his child.  I will never cease to be amazed at the miracle of that moment.  

When a woman has this moment, it is as if something like a wind blows through her heart, mind and body.  It can be a wind that carries her through the rest of her birth journey.  Take her to the fulfillment when she reaches out and brings the child onto her chest.

It’s just so incredibly cool.....

Promises are like “sliver glimpses”.  They are the brief and very real moments that can set our heart, or minds and our actions into motion forward.  It is the hope in that promise gives us encouragement and remind us why we are traveling the path that we before us.  That hope sends the breeze to refresh us when we are weary of waiting.  It whispers into our hearts when we are in the middle of the journey from the promise to the fulfillment.  

I have heard it said that there is at times a desert between the promise and the tangible reality of it in our hands.  What that desert is for each of us may be very different.  What remains the same is the determination of hope that we must all carry inside to get there. 

What remains the same is the love that carries us there.