What are the sources of your joy? Your agitation? Are they small or large in size?

Small joys in life accumulate together to make one’s life alive and thriving.  We sometimes ignore small sources of joy and turn our attention to small frustrations and make them big deal.   Many times we do not feel and express our joy until a big task is accomplished (graduating, retiring, and getting married).  We also may become agitated with small things, that in the big picture are very trivial…

At one of our NOG meetings (Nourishing Our Gifts), I met Carolyn.  I was amazed that she had taken it upon herself to greet prisoners when they were released from the prison in Huntsville, Texas.  She would meet them at the bus terminal where many of them had no one to meet them while they were trying to get back “home”.

Carolyn indicated that at their release from prison, the prisoners received a little red bag to put their belongings in.  Everyone in town who saw the red bag knew…