"A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." Talmud.

  When I read this quote it made me really stop and think, I just love it. A while back I wrote down some of those permissible things we should enjoy:   I'll include them here. 

Simplicity

Brushing your daughters hair,

Family trips to the county fair.

Eating corn dogs and cotton candy,

Wasn’t that Rhode Island Red a dandy?

Sights and sounds on a deep woods Hike

Training wheels gone, time to ride that bike!

Wrestling under the covers, tickle, laugh and chuckle

Smell the fragrance of the lilac and honeysuckle

 Grandma’s home made peanut brittle

Grandpa’s Jack knife, teach ‘em to whittle 

Learn steadily to draw a bow,

Don’t tip the canoe as we row!

Spot the Little dipper and Orion

Knocked down? Dust off, keep trying.

Going over and over the Times Tables,

Sharing fairy tales and Aesop’s fables

Sing a silly childhood tune

Watch the rising Harvest moon

Crayons, paint, sculpture clay,

Teaching little hearts to bow and pray.

 Photo by Sundqvist.