Childlike Innocence

It’s gray and misting rain today in Seattle.  I’m thankful for this mild weather compared to Hurricane Sandy and the beating the east coast received.

When I was very little, around six, I used to love this gray misty weather.  I would run outside and say, “it’s sparkling!”  Perhaps it was a misunderstanding of the word “sprinkling” or maybe I saw something that others didn’t see.  Through my young eyes, maybe it looked like it was sparkling outside.  I hadn’t been in the Pacific Northwest for long at that point, only having just moved from Southern California the year prior.  Seeing gray misting rain was unusual.

I wonder what we could approach today with childlike innocence.  Even those on the east coast who are facing major challenges today, I wonder if there’s a new way to approach things from a simpler perspective or more playful.  Perhaps those of us not faced with hurricane level challenges can breathe a sigh of gratitude and approach today from a place of innocence.  Perhaps we don’t know it all and there is more to learn.  Perhaps we can approach the day wide-open to a new way of seeing things.

As for me, I’m going outside to stand in the sparkles.