What If You

What if you love really hard–

What if you close your eyes and listen to the night sounds of nature?

What if you play in the sprinklers again, like when you were a kid–this time, with your kids?

What if you sit by a flowing brook, a pond of water, or a running creek all day?  Would you have enough bug spray?

What if you eat classic potato chips with your vanilla ice cream?

What if you mail a card everyday–31 cards for 31 people, a card each day of the month?

What if you ride your bike in the moonlight?

What if you paint the exterior of your house a beach color?

What if you feel a dusty moth in your hands again?

What if you climb an apple tree?

What if you write a song?

What if you get in the car and just drive?

What if you make cotton candy?

What if you plant a garden indoors?

What if you take flowers to a stranger in a hospital, visit a cancer or burn patient, or take your dog to a nursing facility for the elderly to pet?

What if you build a kite–and fly it?

What if you run with the sun through a field of Blue Bonnets?

What if you live in a tree house for a week–a month?

What if you take in a movie marathon at the theater on a Saturday–alone?

What if you secretly leave a box of goods at a door at Christmas with a bell and a bright shiny bow?

What if you eat a sundae every Sunday?

What if you fill a dark room with lightening bugs?

What if you spend a rainy day in bed?

What if you plant all your yard into roses?

What if you stay home during the winter and never greet visitors; be stocked up, shop from home when you have to?

What if you turn off the phone all month long?

What if you make your days nights, your nights days–for a while?

What if you cook breakfast for your local fire department or police force?

What if you decorate a grave each day with fresh flowers and a ribbon–for anyone’s loved one?

What if you pick up trash on your daily walk–instead of stepping over it or pushing it aside with your foot?

What if you read the obituaries in your town’s paper, then cook a really good casserole, bake a cake or a pie to take over to a family–complete strangers to you?

What if you celebrate a birthday–on any day, any time of the year?

What if you type letters to your descendants, to your great-grandchildren to leave in a vault–as creepy as it may sound?  You’d be leaving them a chunk of their family information…

What if you “paint the sky” with your thoughts, with your inventions, with solid plans that stick through a travel of time–to leave as heirlooms and assets for your family through generations to come?  Would it be a goodly heritage?

What if you pray without ceasing?

What if you love for a lifetime, then love when you’re gone?

What if you create a spiritual place for your children to come home to–and their children…