Look at the seal.

Just lying there.
In the sun.
On the sand.

Not rushing.
Not proving.
Not performing.

Just… being.

And that?
That is joy.

Not the loud kind.
Not the flashy, Instagram-filter kind.
But the kind that sneaks up on you
when you finally
slow
down.

Joy isn’t something you find.
It’s something you remember.

It’s already in you.
In the stillness.
In the breath.
In the warmth of sunlight on your skin.

The seal isn’t trying to be anything.
And maybe that’s the point.

What if joy
isn’t out there—
but right here,
in this moment?

And maybe that’s all we need sometimes.
Not more answers.
Not more doing.
Just the courage to stop.
To listen.
To let joy
find us
again.

#abdlent #ANPC