"Each bud flowers but once, and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace, and radiant kingship. Each star passes but once in the night through the meridian over our heads and shines there but an instant; so, in the heavens of the mind each thought touches its zenith but once, and in that moment all its brilliancy and all its greatness culminate. Artist, poet, or thinker, if you want to fix and immortalize your ideas or your feelings, seize them at this precise and fleeting moment, for it is their highest point. Before it, you have but vague outlines of dim presentiments of them. After it you will have only weakened reminiscence or powerless regret; that moment is the moment of your ideal." Amiel's Journal.

This little piece is a well know fact to any writer, artist, and I think Christian.

There is a moment when a thought is at its clearest and must be seized at that moment or it may never return. Write it down and don't delay, it matters and in just the time it takes to answer a brief question or in hunting for pen and paper it can be gone, forever. I chose this photo to illustrate the thought 5 minutes after you had it.

Photo by Sebina D.