Sounds silly, doesn't it?
I worked at a camp years ago that after really stressful weeks, we'd decompress by talking about our "Magic Moments" with the kids (they were all chronically ill) that made us laugh or cry or stop and think.
I don't know about everyone else but my life has been really stressful lately.
And I had a magic moment on Tuesday... a few actually.
I got a call early in the morning that one of "my" kids had unexpectedly died. When I got there, her little, skinny, five year old sister asked to sit in my lap. She asked if we were going to take "Katie" to the doctor and I had to tell her that the doctors couldn't help and that Katie's heart wasn't beating any more and that her lungs weren't breathing any more. She asked if we were going to bury her and I said yes.
"At the cemetary?"
Yes
"And we can go visit?"
Yes, we can.
"And put flowers on her grave?"
Absolutely
"I'm going to leave flowers behind me when I walk away so I can find my way back all the time when we leave."
A little while later, out of the blue while we were waiting for the funeral home...
"Dad? Dad? Dad? DADDY?! Katie's up there playing, isn't she?"
And after her little sister was put into the van to leave, she crawled up and kissed her on the cheek and put flowers in her hair. She had her mother on the phone (from jail... hmmph) but looked up at all of us, holding the phone kinda hidden and said...
Um... do you think it would be okay, if... um... maybe Mommy got to kiss Katie goodbye, too? And held the phone up to her three year old sister's cold little face so Mommy could kiss her goodbye, too.
Dude, I seriously lost it. So sweet.
But so amazing.
I've had a million magic moments, but I'd love to hear more from other people.
Those moments that made you stop for a moment and appreciate something or someone, an instant that made you smile or laugh or cry, something that sticks with you and pops back up like a snapshot when you need it.
