Freeze.

There are those moments that spontaneously occur. The ones where you look at someone or something wonderful, someone or something you love and you feel real, true, happiness. Usually those moments are fleeting, maybe a minute or two before something interrupts or interjects, changing the course of things, then poof....it's gone. I wish I could tuck them away somewhere, store them in a file to pull out at a later date and remember when....
Tonight was one of those times. As Jayla and I were visiting and praying before bed. I wanted to freeze it, to hold onto it, exactly as it was, with her flowered pink sheets and the princess picture collage she colored decorating her wall. I wish I could put it away and come back to it later. Maybe when she is grown and gone or when she is an adolescent giving her mother an attitude. This evening was special as I was able to sit with a darling 7 year old girl, who was completely animated and engaging, telling her mom a story about the theater she was going to set up for our next family movie. It was a story like any other story she might share on any other day, but tonight, for some reason, it was pure bliss.