These are the Moments

These are the moments. The moments we don't see coming, and yet we are waiting for them.

We were at a wedding this weekend. It was a beautiful event of a dear friend. The guests were all in the reception area waiting for the bride and groom. There was food to eat and friends to catch up with. The lights were dim and the music was playing.

I was standing by a table of friends chatting when a little hand reached up and took mine. It was my youngest child. I turned to see what he needed, and he looked up at me and said,

 "Mommy, lets dance."

A thousand thoughts entered my head in a split second. "That's the most precious thing he's ever said." "Where did he come up with that?" "We don't dance much at home." "Maybe we should." "No one else is dancing." "We can't be the first ones on the dance floor." "That's for the bride and groom." "Where will we dance?" "Did my 2 year old child just really ask me to dance?"

Just a split second, and then.....

I took his hand and we walked out by the cake in the middle of the room.....and danced....

"Are we finished?" I asked him after a few minutes. Two year olds usually don't last long on the dance floor, and we were the only ones dancing. "No, Mommy," he said, "let's dance more." "Okay," I answered, "let's dance more."

A moment. That's all it was. A moment in this crazy, spinning world we live in. It didn't last long, and, oh, how my heart knows it won't last long.

In another split second he'll be ten, then twenty.

I have to take the moments. The moments I don't see coming, and live them now. Every day, live in the now, and love the moments in the midst of the living.

And dance, when no one else is.