Thich Nhat Hanh describes enjoying a good cup of tea. You must be in the present moment, mindful and aware, to enjoy the tea, to savour the sweet aroma, to taste the flavour, to feel the warmth of the cup. If you are ruminating about past events or worrying about future ones, you will look down at your cup and the tea will be gone. You drank it, but you do not remember, because you were not aware. Life is like that cup of tea ...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Another one of my joys is cooking, and today with the weather being a bit wet and mis, I decided that I just HAD to make some yummy, fresh, tomato soup! While making it, I was singing along to some of the songs on the radio, feeling really content. I was also secretly anticipating the delicious taste and the enjoyment my family would have while tucking into the soup. I was in my joy.
Even though I had some bread in the fridge, at the last minute, I decided that freshly home made soup deserves freshly baked bread, We have an amazing new bakery just down the road, and the baker uses only 3 basic ingredients in his bread - stone ground flour, water and his own home grown yeast. No additives or anything else! So off I tootled down the road to get the bread and then onto school to fetch my kids, really excited to nurture them with my joyful soup.
It was delicious and I concluded that in living your joy, you are serving others. In this particular case, it was my family.
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