A single point in time....

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Have you ever had a moment, a split second in time where everything was perfect and all that surrounded you was stripped of consequence? A brief flash where you felt safe and loved and utterly invincible, suffused with a sense that everything was as it should be? Did you feel as if you could barely survive it, that in another thought's time your very heart could burst from the sheer magnitude of it all? Did you wish you could be lost in it forever?

I'm having one of those moments right now.

I want it to last for another second, a minute, an hour, a lifetime. I imagine it could last forever if I can just find the courage to reach out and seize that moment in my hands. I want to lose myself in this feeling, yet I'm afraid to -- I don't know if I can withstand it. My heart is not used to feeling this overwhelmed by emotion, I am not accustomed to having this much feeling coursing through me.

I think I know now what it feels like to be struck by lightening, to have that much power surging through my body and spirit.

I don't know if I can ever find an adequate way to thank her.