Monday, a day a bit more challenging to find peace. At least today, it was one of those days when you make a "to do" list before you go to bed and pray you didn't forget to add something to it! Accomplishing items as you go, discovering you forgot a thing or two, before you know it kids are coming home from school and you are trying to find a second wind for the end of the year Cub Scout event, which you somehow do, you have no choice, you are a single mom and your son is counting on you.
Tonight, reflecting on the chaos otherwise known as my day, I can say I did sit for a couple minutes during the flag burning ceremony and could enjoy the silence out at the park. I listed to the script the older Boy Scouts read and watched as tons of boys seated around the campfire were able to sit in silence, in awe of what was going on. It's not often you see someone cut the American flag, in an honorary fashion and then, while reading what was happening and why, they placed each piece of the flag separately into the fire. As they explained, nothing else is to enter the fire nor did it. It was a moment where all the grown ups, young energetic kids, younger siblings nearby all were quite, taking in the importance of what was taking place. We are so blessed to live where we do, in a country where we have so much freedom that we can't imagine what it would ever feel like to be without it. I guess today's joy is a different kind, a joy that we are so blessed to live in American, with freedom other in the world only dream about.
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