We Jews are celebrating Passover.
It’s an eight day holiday which involves many hours of cooking and cleaning.
Unless you’re lucky enough to have a brother like mine
Who decided to take our entire extended family on a sumptous Passover holiday
Where an army of people follow all the rules for us
And we just have to show up and enjoy ourselves.
My brother told me that this quote inspired him to take us:
“It’s not how many breaths you take. It’s how many moments take your breath away.”
We’ve only been here 24 hours and we have had so many breathtaking moments already.
Mostly to do with interactions and lovings.
Twelve cousins reuniting, singing together, dancing, rolling down the snow covered hill, inventing games, taking care of each other, blending into each other so you can’t tell who belongs to who.
Thing is, we could easily miss all those moments.
If we were worrying about something.
Or noticing that someone didn’t greet us with enough fervour.
Or complaining that my room has the wrong view.
Or arguing about our different religious philosophies.
Which brings me to my inspiration for you:
I turned to my brother and said
“Mike, those ‘take your breath away’ moments are always available to us.
In every moment.
All we need to do is open our eyes to see them.
Now that was probably not the most self-serving thing to tell him.
I really should be encouraging him to invite my family to help create breath-taking moments in as many luxurious locales as he can think of!
But it’s what I want to tell you.
Right now. Look up.
Find the thing that’s right in front of you.
Specifically designed to take your breath away.
Right now.
For you.
To find.
Shoot me an email and tell me what it was.
Can’t find it? Email me and I’ll help you find it. Guaranteed. My gift.
Becuase helping you find those breathtaking moments for yourself
Takes my breath away.
Every time.