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So after some refreshments and socializing – it was time. I gathered all the kids out front and explained the rules, including staying out of the muddy areas, and turned them loose. What great joy watching them scurry about gathering up their goodies! The bigger kids walked past the candy laying out in the open for the younger kids to find and the younger kids squealed with delight every time they found something. They crisscrossed the yard and woods several times, heads turned downward searching for their sweet prey, seemingly oblivious to each other as they passed each other.
After they were clearly about out of things to find, we gathered back up again in the front to allow them a little time to delve into their buckets and enjoy the treats of their efforts, but also to allow me time to go back out in the back and hide the special prize eggs (one for each). Once again they burst forth in an explosion of kid energy, a force unmatched in elsewhere nature, and very quickly the prize eggs were turned over to me in exchange for their prizes. Just great fun for all of us.
And this morning as I thought back over the whole day, what struck me most was the fact that these kids – especially the little ones who may have only done this once or twice, or in a couple of cases, never at all – just took for the whole idea that there were brightly colored plastic eggs full of candy tucked and secreted inside the crevices of a mossy old stone wall or inside the hollowed up portion of an old tree trunk. One any other day of any other week of any other month of the year you could spend hours scouring the same wall or trees and would find not a single egg or piece of candy. Yet on this one day of the year – there they are!
And that, dear reader, got me thinking about life. We go through our lives constantly looking for treasure, for that next purple or yellow egg filled with some sort of surprise or treat. Whether it is overt or subconscious, we all do it. We read a new book; go to a new destination on a vacation or trip, join new social circles whether on line or in real life. We change jobs, cars, clothes, and hobbies. And all in hopes of discovering something that brings us new joy – a treat – life candy so to speak. We are constantly seeking that ‘next great thing” for ourselves; for that next thrill or pick me up or adrenaline rush.
The thing is, we (mostly) search in all the same familiar places. We look where we always look, predictable beings that we are. Because it doesn’t make a lick of sense to do so, we don’t even look for a treat hiding in the crevices of that old stone wall; we don’t even look in that direction. But the kids did, yesterday, and they were amply rewarded for doing so. What great treasures are we missing because we look on the same shelves or in the same cupboards and didn’t take a chance to look inside that stone wall or under that old log?
We have to allow life to present its gifts (yes – I was tempted to use “presents”) us in as diverse and unexpected a manner as possible. We limit what we find because we limit where we look. The openness and willingness to allow life to treat them to an egg, even inside a stone wall of all places, is a lesson from which we should all learn. You never know where you will find that next great thing; don’t limit yourself or you will miss out.
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