Every Easter, we have a candy hunt for our grand-kids. We hide candy throughout the main rooms of our house and they have a blast finding these treasures and depositing them on the dining room table, where Grandpa will redistribute them into even stashes. We don't want any hurt feelings that the bigger kids found more candy than the little ones.

An unexpected part of this fun family event is to find candy throughout the year that the grandkids missed in their quest to find the most candy.

As you can see in the photo above, there is a lone foil-wrapped chocolate egg sitting on the window sill, waiting to be noticed. The interesting thing is that either my husband or I opened and closed the window shades every day for two months, until at last I spied the tasty morsel sitting there, plain as day. I was astounded that one of us hadn't noticed it before.

It got me thinking about how much I must miss everyday because I am distracted, rushed, feeling negative or single-minded in my focus. I felt a little sad that there are so many possibilities, perhaps staring me right in the face, like the Easter candy, that I don't see and therefore don't acknowledge. I wonder where these discoveries or alternative paths would lead me. So, I have recommitted to be more mindful as I go about my life and hope that this purposeful openness allows me to see new possibilities, go down new paths and explore the unknown.

How about you?