My (Easter) Lesson In Being Easily Delighted

I am a pessimist. Really. It’s in the title of my blog and it’s so true. My natural inclination is to look on the negative side of life and situations. But as I get older – call it growth? – I’m trying to be intentional about looking for good, happy things. I fail and I forget. A lot. But sometimes I manage to take notice and remember…it’s fun to be easily delighted.

In late March, when we brought out our Easter décor, L took it upon himself to hide plastic eggs everywhere. Most of them ended up on the mantle, but colour me surprised – and delighted – late one night when I grabbed the bottle of shampoo while showering and a hot pink plastic egg fell out from its hiding place into the tub.

When I hopped out of the shower and grabbed my hair towel off the back of the door, a pastel purple egg clattered to the tile floor.

And when I went to water the lone plant in our bathroom a few days later – you guessed it – there was a brightly-coloured egg hiding among the leaves.

I was delighted each and every time – an unknowing participant in an egg hunt I didn’t even know had been set up for my benefit.

Your turn. What “little thing” has delighted you recently?

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