Becoming a Joy Catcher

I read a blog a few months ago. I thought I had written down the link, but I lost it (if it was yours, please leave a note and I will link back). She talked about “pieces of joy” – I loved it.

 What she said was so true – each day is filled with pieces of joy – and I thought a joyful life is not made out of whole cloth –  it is made out of pieces. That really took a lot of pressure out of my life. It helped create appropriate expectations for my days. It made me grab those moments, look at the pieces of joy more closely. Instead of feeling a failure for not stretching those pieces into an entire 24 hours, I was able to better savor those joyful moments, instead of discarding them because they were not lasting. Then, like the book, If you give a mouse a cookie, the thought from the post I read, like a rabbit chasing a thought, turned down another path.

You have to catch those pieces of joy, or they will escape. I need to become a Joy Catcher – My mind, the butterfly net to those joyful moments, watching for them out of the corner of my eye, or being ready for when they surprise, and if they flutter to sit on my nose or shoulder that is fine, too, but if I have to chase one down with my Joy Catcher net, how nice is that – to catch and pull them close, those joyful moments. A Joy Catcher – I like that! I want to be that!