Observant

It takes a two-year-old to spot (and continually rejoice in) the lone pink light post standing amid a sea of white lights in our apartment complex.



It takes a two year old to see faces smiling through a "kren-zel!" (pretzel) disguise.

It takes a two year old to immediately recognize Rocket (yes, we are Little Einsteins fans) rather than a letter 'Q' during play-time with our left-over-from-Christmas foam alphabet.

It takes a two year old to make fast friends with a neglected black "cat" picked up in the bathroom.

Laughable examples. But the more I watch and delight in Lucy's unique discerning, the more I want to be Quick to Observe, and to develop the desirable spiritual gift of discernment.

Desirable, because, as Elder Bednar describes,

"Discernment is so much more than recognizing right from wrong. It helps us
distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant, the important from the
unimportant, and the necessary from that which is merely nice."

I sure spend a lot of time with "nice."

"The gift of discernment opens to us vistas that stretch far beyond what can be seen with natural eyes or heard with natural ears. Discerning is seeing with spiritual eyes and feeling with the heart—seeing and feeling the falsehood of an idea or the goodness in another person. Discerning is hearing with spiritual ears and feeling with the heart—hearing and feeling the unspoken concern in a statement or the truthfulness of a testimony or doctrine."

Hmmmmm. Desirable.