Unlocked In the Moments

     I came into this world the way every person on the planet does, with a clean slate.  Being human we all have  a few reasons to gripe during life.  Bad days and broken dreams seem to pile up over a lifetime turning a clean slate into a list of spreading bitterness where goals not reached can become excuses for not finding the joys of life.

     Every year when my birthday rolls around I seem to want to take stock of the joys of my life.   The other 364 days of the year it's easy to take that joy for granted because sometimes the world is an ugly place.  But the world is also sometimes a beautiful place and that's the joy we all need to find.  

     Most mornings I wake up not thinking of my blessings and graces but on my birthday the whole day seems to slow down.  It's the moments of life where joy is found not the years.  So Thursday I was another moment older not another year older.  Life in nothing more than a riddle that can be unlocked in moments.  It's the small things in life where joy is usually found and if I am still around 364 days from now I'll be another moment older, filled with more joy from the unlocked moments of life.