This card was inspired by the story in chapter 49 of the book "50 Truths Worth Knowing".
Laura, a mother of two young children, often found herself too busy. The To Do list included many things - scouting meetings, chaperoning field trips, shuttling children from one school activity to another, assisting with homework, and on and on. It was often difficult to juggle everything that needed to get accomplished... and adding just one more item to an already bulging To Do List could be "fatal".
Such is what happened one day when the delicate balance of life careened into disaster. At 4:30 she was frantically trying to get to the next thing on the list - rushing her daughter into her coat without really listening to a word her daughter was saying. Then... THEN... she remembered that the items on the list were not nearly important as the daughter she was in essence ignoring. So she stopped. Stopped and looked deeply into her daughter's eyes, apologizing for not listening. She asked her daughter to tell her again and this time she listened.
Then she turned to her son and asked him to tell her about his day and she listened to him, too.
Granted, they were 5 minutes late arriving at the next destination. But Laura also realized that she was happier in that moment than she'd been all day. Why? Because she'd connected to the most precious people in her life.
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Fri, Dec 08, 2017 @ 3:13 PM
A good message in here for all of us, it's so easy to get caught up in things. I love that old-fashioned alarm clock image, and the visual cue it gives me of paying attention to an alarm call/ reminder.