In The Whisper

"One Who Knows Patience Knows Peace."---Ancient proverb.


Stillness teaches us Calm.
Stillness teaches us Patience.
Stillness teaches us to Listen.


One of the seniors who lives near me was feeling alone and isolated. So, I asked her to accompany me to the toy store in town. Toy stores are mystical places filled with wonder.

Time passed as we searched the shelves. My neighbor was delighted to find a blue horse. Her eyes were filled with glee as she began her tale. As a little girl, she once rode a blue horse. As a summer treat, her father had taken her to a ranch. She had been allowed to choose any horse to ride. There had been one lone blue horse. She had never known such horses really existed. She thought they had merely been the stuff of legend. But, on that blue horse, riding across the fields of wild grass, she had felt triumphant, invincible, like a warrior princess.The owner of the store sat on the carpeted floor. I sat on a wooden treasure chest. We were transfixed.

The elderly woman before us became young again. It was an enchanted moment. Beaming, transported through time, reconnected to lost innocence, my neighbor was beautiful. And, her happiness was contagious. We all felt it, in that room, in that moment.

I sat quietly; thus, I was able to hear.

When those moments of starry wonder happen, they don't always announce themselves with sound and fury, but in a whisper. We can easily miss these moments, we are too busy, too distracted by real world events. We make excuses for ourselves. "No, time to stop," we say. In most cases, justifiably so.

But, when we do stop, the moments of wonder are there, waiting.