just a moment

there are moments that sneak up on a person...moments so delicate and sweet you close your eyes to stop time and savor them, spun sugar threads and sparkles behind your eyes, tears threaten flood trails down your cheeks...just at the absoluteness of that particular moment...when your puppy sighs and leans in against you...when a combination of colors you see - in your head or with your eyes - reveals it's true breathtaking beauty...when the song of the mockingbird outside the window makes you turn off the iPod in favor of a natural soundtrack...your heart clutches with the gratitude of it all, the beauty that has been there all along, the QuietHeart-ness that is there to touch and feel and see, if you just take a single moment to let it wash over you...these moments are a gift...to be unwrapped respectfully and savored for as long as they are willing to stay, knowing that in mere seconds or minutes they will be gone. But they will change you...they will leave a piece of themselves within you as a touchstone back to the memory of that moment...