there is this moment

there's this moment. there's this moment where time and space and everything going on around us could really not exist at all. this moment where i can look into your eyes, and feel totally at peace.
not just the peace that means an absence of conflict, because it seems that there is always conflict.

its a peace that doesn't really have words to describe; but if it could be described, it would be something like this. everything around us could become nothing, but i think we would be ok, because we have something.

its a moment that can exist beyond a finite definition of time and space. its almost like the hebrew word for "day," it could mean a literal 24 hour period, it could mean 24 minutes. . .it just means a period of time. i can carry this moment with me, draw from it, and it confronts me when my attitude needs readjusting.

and these moments keep happening again and again and again. they are reminders of what it is like to truly be with someone. to do life with someone. to experience the messiness, the dirty, and brokeness with someone. but those parts are completed by these moments. where your eyes and mine meet and we can rise above the those things which seek to drag us down and divide us. where we can choose to fight for what is true and right and brings hope.

and we have a choice in this moment as well. we can choose to embrace it and let it renew us. or we can choose to be bitter and sour and angry about those things which have stung us.

no, i have not always chosen to embrace it, and for that i am truly sorry. but i hope that i will embrace them more tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that . . . .

may we choose to recognize, rest it, and embrace these moments when we find them.

be good to each other. look at Christ. peace.