Leaning In

What are some of the best moments in your life?

How can you appreciate and lean into them more?

Our Experience

One of my favorite movies is About Time (2013). Perhaps I have mentioned it before. It is about an English boy, Tim, who is told by his father on his twenty-first birthday that the men in the family can travel back in time in their own lives. What follows right away are Tim’s clumsy attempts to get a girlfriend.

Towards the end of the movie his father tells Tim that one of the best things to do with this power is to re-live the day before, free from its uncertainties and stresses, able to appreciate the day’s special moments.

Pausing to identify the best or good things about our lives has a filtering effect.

We learn what to say “Yes” to as well as what to say “No” to.

There is also a compounding effect. Good moments multiply.

Not surprisingly, being a friend creates best moments for Libby. She loves to walk with her friends, literally and figuratively, sharing their joys and their sorrows.

Of course, she loves any and all contact with our children and grandchildren.

Eating meals on the porch never gets old.

Cooling down after a run before dusk is special for me, although I have not done it very often. The Strava App helps me document my aging.

Meeting new people and connecting them to others is also life-giving. Our church and neighborhood have afforded many such opportunities.

What gives you some best moments and how can you lean into them?