Moments When We Touch Another

A devoted 79-year-old husband walked into a beauty school and asked to be shown how to apply mascara and use a curling wand so he could help his “beautiful” wife of 50 years. The gentleman said his wife’s vision was failing and she needed help. The school’s staff, moved to tears by his tenderness, dropped what they were doing and immediately gave him some tips.
“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another, when we are there in the most attentive or caring way. This intimacy is the love we all long for.”
​– Jack Kornfield, Spirituality and Social Action
Affirmative prayer:  Infinite Presence, how good it is, how grateful I am to have an open, connecting heart, and to have arms and eyes to embrace another. I pray that the love and sense of Oneness I feel when I am caring for others become such a vivid dimension of who I am, that kindness and beauty underscore all I do. I am blessed, and I am a blessing. My God, thank you forever. Amen.