As I looked through some photos tonight, I came across this picture. I paused and felt everything in me stop and yearn for this space. This is a space that represents almost perfect peace. This was the upstairs sitting room/bedroom of our Air BNB in Norway. There is just something so right about all it represents.
It was an accomplishment to arrive here. It was our first international travel after my Dad died. It was an adventure to travel to a country where we knew no one but came to bear witness to the land’s beauty. It was a place my Mom had wanted to visit, so we made it happen for her 80th birthday. Sitting in this space represented so much goodness and a quiet place to take it all in.
I want to stop more in my everyday routines and take it all in. I wonder if you have a way of doing that? Sometimes, I miss the bearing witness moments in my hometown cause I am running by them with my focus on the next thing. Sometimes, I miss the beauty surrounding me, in nature or people or unexpected ways, because I don’t expect to see any beauty in the spaces I travel daily.
The beauty of Norway 
is breathtaking. It is unforgettable, and the pictures will forever invite me back in a way that I hope my body memory will not forget. I am also grateful for the beauty in my life at home. May I be in awe of this and find 
the same deep peace with all I am surrounded by!
I hope you also will discover glorious moments of remembering in the places you have experienced goodness, both in faraway places and in your hometown! ❤️ Trish
