Slow down, take a deep breath, and enjoy the moment.

It's been a while. But here I am.

What can I say? Life has been busy. School, music, friends, family, church.

Sometimes I just forget to slow down, take a deep breath, and enjoy the moment. I get so wrapped up in looking at the big picture. Which is by no means a bad thing, but sometimes you need to relax and live in the now, because you only have one shot, one lifetime on this earth. Then you have eternity to look forward to.

Take last night for example. I was serving at my church, which was holding a PEP Prom for teenagers with disabilities. It was amazing. Everyone was having a blast. But for the first half of it, I was worrying about doing my job correctly. It wasn't until a young boy who was about 14 came up behind me and tugged on my arm. I turned around. His assigned date was holding his arm and walking him down to the dance floor, but he wanted to dance with me. So I grabbed his other arm and walked, slowly, with him and his date to dance. I held one arm and his date the other, and we swayed back and forth to the music.

How cool is that?

It reminded me to just breathe out and let my mind unwind. To have some fun. And I did. The rest of the evening was wonderful and I wouldn't trade those couple of hours for anything.