Moments That Matter Most

Today I caught myself doing something of which so many of us find ourselves guilty. My sisters are in town visiting me here in El Mirage. Little Julianna (who's not so little anymore), came up to me and said, "Kristi, can I show you a song I wrote on the piano?!" She was so excited and in my hastiness to finish a chapter of the book I am reading I said, "Not now, Julianna." I resumed reading for a short minute before I realized that moments like these happen every day. I paused long enough to know that not letting another one pass me by is well worth the two minutes my little sister required of my time. I walked into my Grandmother's piano room and Jules turned around with the biggest smile on her face and played her song. She felt satisfied and I felt enlightened with the knowledge that life's simplest moments, the moments that pass us by, are the moments that are most important.