May 13

I've found that recent days haven't brought big, obvious winks my way. Instead, I've had small, blink-and-you-miss-them moments. Here's one from this afternoon.

While my dear friend J and I sat on a bench in the preschool play yard and talked after school, our boys ventured outside the gate and explored the books on display for the week's book sale. We were in the middle of a fairly serious discussion when I glanced over and saw that the boys had plunked down to get an up-close look at a few of their favorite volumes.

So much innocence and sweetness in those faces.

The world is an imperfect place, but there's so much of the face of God in the faces of children that it can take your breath away, if you let it happen.