December 17th
Ordinary Joy: How have you experienced ordinary joy this year?
I experienced the most ordinary joy with friends while visiting in Nashville. The journey itself is what created the ordinary joy.
The particular moment, though, happened when a group of us walked into a friend's home to take care of their cats.
One of us spotted a bag of pretzel M&M's in a bowl on the kitchen table. The sudden excitement over the candy was enough to send the group of us into an exhilarating joy.
Between the four of us, we ate the entire bag of pretzel M&M's.
The entire trip from that point on became one steady stream of laughter.
The vacation was also an opportunity for me to meet the wife of a good friend for the first time. The ordinary joy culminated when he asked toward the end of our weekend together, "So, what did you guys think of each other."
His wife and I looked at each other as if we'd been friends all our lives.
That's ordinary joy. Being able to be completely free and yourself with your friends and know that the friendship will last a lifetime. I loved that moment.
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