December 14, 2025
Thought of the Day:
Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. — A.A. Milne
There’s something quietly disarming about this thought. It doesn’t arrive with force. It doesn’t try to impress you. It just sits there, calmly true, waiting for you to notice how often it proves itself right.
We tend to think our hearts are filled by big moments. The kind you put on a calendar. The kind you tell stories about years later. But if you’re honest, the moments that linger longest are rarely the ones you planned for.
They’re the moments that slipped in unnoticed.
This morning offered a good reminder of that. Snow fell overnight. Not enough to shut the world down. Just enough to change it. The street looked quieter. The light felt softer. And my kids pressed their faces to the window like they were seeing something brand new.
That look. That awe. That kind of joy doesn’t need explanation.
It’s easy to overlook moments like that because they don’t announce themselves as important. They don’t come with speeches or celebrations. They just happen. And then, somehow, they stay.
That’s what this thought is really pointing to. The heart doesn’t measure significance the way the calendar does. It doesn’t care how much effort something took or how impressive it looked from the outside. It remembers how something made you feel when you weren’t trying to control the moment.
As adults, we get very good at chasing big things. Big goals. Big plans. Big fixes. We assume meaning lives somewhere out there, just past the next milestone. But more often than not, meaning shows up quietly, while we’re busy looking elsewhere.
A laugh you didn’t expect.
A morning that feels gentler than usual.
A moment of calm where there should have been chaos.
Those moments don’t take up much space on paper. But they move in and settle deep.
The trouble is, we’re not always great at noticing them while they’re happening. We’re distracted. Rushing. Mentally preparing for the next thing. It’s only later, sometimes much later, that we realize how much room they’ve taken up inside us.
That’s why kids are such good teachers here. They don’t filter moments through productivity or usefulness. They don’t ask if something is worth remembering. They just experience it. Fully. Honestly. Without apology.
Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to outgrow that. We learned to downplay small joys. To keep moving. To wait for something “better” before we allow ourselves to feel settled.
But this thought nudges us in the opposite direction.
It reminds us that the small things are not distractions from life. They are life. And when we dismiss them, we’re not being efficient. We’re being inattentive.
If today feels heavy, maybe the invitation here is simple. Look for the small thing that’s already trying to take up space. Let it. Sit with it longer than feels necessary. You don’t have to do anything with it. You just have to notice it.
Because one day, when you look back, it probably won’t be the big stuff you miss most. It’ll be the quiet moments that didn’t ask for your attention but earned your heart anyway.
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