The Beauty of Capturing Everyday Moments | Mindful Living 

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Beautiful video. Thank you so very much for it. My husband passed away recently. He had faith in our Messiah so that gives me peace. Moments are fleeting, treasure them. Imagine how much our Abba loves us ... Til we meet again ❤🙏🙏🙏🙏❤

Oh! This one made me cry Lea!! 😭 I went from tears of sadness, to tears of joy, to tears of hope. Thank you for reminding us to enjoy those small special moments. ❤

Linger in the sweet moments and memories...some bring a smile to my lips while others bring comfort or even longing for another moment. While we are living this life...stop and linger in His sweet presence, listening for His voice to lead. Have a blessed weekend

I live with my dad, who is 87 years old and two precious kitty cats, one who is 16 years old and the other is 7 years old. I know in the back of my mind that some day they will no longer be with me. I cherish those close moments with each of them daily ☺️💖

Tears from deep within my soul. I remember vividly the hug my father gave me the day before he passed. He stood when standing was painful. I told him no, as I leaned down, but he rose and hugged and gave me that gift of his love to carry me through. Eighteen years ago this October and that hug still fills my soul and sustains my grateful heart 🤍🕊️. Love you, daddy and thank you for not listening to my no. Thank you Lea. Bless your whole family on the little mountain of shalom 🕊️🪽🤍

Your life reminds me of that quiet and gentle life the Bible talks about

That made me very emotional. It took me back to my last hug from my Dad before he passed, I will never forget the love I felt at that moment. Thank you for sharing💞

Lea, this is such a precious, precious video. A beautiful reminder for us to cherish those we love while we journey together through this brief time on earth. But praise God! We will gather again to be with Jesus for all eternity! Blessings to you and your family.

It's so important to appreciate the ordinary. When I married my husband with a brain tumor we were going to have 2 sets of dishes. The special occasion and the every day. What I felt strongly was especially in my circumstances every day was a special occasion and gave away my everyday dishes and used the special occasion ones every day. I was blessed with 12 years with the love of my life and then he went to Jesus. My everyday was hard but special because he was in it. I lost 2 friends this year and have been reminded to celebrate the regular fellowships because with each passing year there's less to fellowship with. This world is not our home, we're just a passin' through, my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue...thank you beloved brother and sister! Love you!

This really hit home for me. I am only a teenager and growing up I will admit is hard , I see so much change. It makes me miss when I was younger, but I see now that the LORD is blessing me every time I wake and everytime I get to see me family. Even if I have a bad day, I still always am grateful to have woken and to spend time with my family .And I find myself very often now on the verge of tears of joy , because I am just so grateful to the LORD for my family and all the little moments and memories we share.❤ Thank you for making this video.

Thank you for these cleansing tears! 🥲

Couldn’t have explained it better. Ordinary moments can sometimes become much more after they’ve passed

Congratulations on 102K subscribers. But I’m not surprised, with the peace your videos give, a brief reprieve from the world’s bustle. Thankyou x

Thank you for touching my soul today❤

I always look forward to your videos 🤍 so calming and peaceful 🌿✨ May the Lord bless you 🤍

The story of your brother Lea made my heart full 💕 thank you for this video

You are so blessed to have learned this message so early in life. I didn't find it until I retired and even then it was so uncomfortable to just be still. But during that time I had 8 weeks with my mom before she passed. Now I walk with my dog each day and marvel at the wonders God has created for us to enjoy. I now count myself blessed with the gift of quiet, slow days. Thank you so much for sharing ❤

I've lost so many. This video touched my soul. Hands down, my favorite of ALL. 🙏💜🙏💜🙏💜

I’d give anything to hear my dad hum again. He went to be with the Lord a year ago April. Those were precious moments.

First time I have cried in so long...life has become so stale and dead for me lately. I had hip replacement and other health issues the past year. My daughter moved back in with my grandson after a divorce...life has been hard. Thank you for reminding me of what I had forgot and taken for granted. A beautiful video❤

Oh my gosh, brought tears to my spirit. So lovely.

What an amazing video. I needed this for my soul. God bless you and your family.

That brought some tears and some special memories to me, such an important reminder, thank you. x

Teary 🥹🥹 and now I'm going to go hug my babies tighter. I didn't expect this to make such an impact. Thank you for sharing such a precious moment

You are speaking such true words. I will remember them and just soak up all the ordinary moments that really are not so ordinary.. they are magnificent! Thank you! ❤

Lea what a beautiful and heartfelt video. Blessing to you and your sweet family.

The day before my nephew died, I drove him to pick up his car… there was this moment, when he turned around and looked and me and said “I love you Auntie”. It was like time stood still for a moment even then. I know now the Lord was gifting me a snapshot that I would hold in my heart forever❤️ thank you for sharing this

So can empathize with your sweet reflections of the blessings of-now.

Thank you for reminding us of how precious each moment of life really is!! Blessings

This was priceless, Lea. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this video it’s so beautiful and the Bible scrip, you share is much need it gives hope and we can learn to appreciate life,nature and family! God bless and keep you both and let HIS face shine upon you both!♥️

This is such a beautiful reminder to notice the common things in our lives that might not be as common as we think. Thank you,Lea for this reminder 💗

Bless your heart for this video♥️ As I watched it my eyes filled with tears & I let them flow. Both my parents have passed & so often I miss them. Yet today I ponder those moments as well of my time spent with them. Cutting my Dad’s hair at the personal care home( it was a gift), caring for my Mom in ICU was a gift. Glad I was allowed to be here for them🙏🏻❤️

Why did this video bring tears to my eyes? When you said one day James and those sweet dogs will not be in that room and my sweet Boston Terrier, Daisy “Mum” passed the end of May and she was truly my best friend…. It’s been so hard to not have her anymore. And yes life goes by so quick and my memories of my three now adult kids as babies is a complete blur….. I kick myself for not remembering more

This video is so in line with how my life has changed the past few years, and how I've learned to slow down. Five years ago on Labor Day, my only brother Nathan, passed away after a terrible accident. We were devastated to say the least. But 2 or 3 weeks before the accident there was such a drawing power, and my heart was so turned towards him and I was just compelled to dote on him, making him cookies for no reason and lots of hugs and in depth conversations about our childhood and the happy times. I thank God for giving me those few weeks. We take so much for granted. Slow down and enjoy the beauty and treasure of the ordinary life. This experience with my brother has changed my life. God bless!❤

That was so beautiful

Lea, I have watched many many of your videos over the years. This may be one of my favorite ones you have made. Perfect reminder for us to slow down, soak in every moment as if could be our last, and give thanks for the blessings we have. What a lovely video, my sister-in-Christ. Much thanks for you today. ❤

Simply beautiful!!! Love this one.

Such a beautiful video with beautiful words. Brought tears to my eyes, thank you for reminding us to appreciate every moment God gives us with our loved ones. God bless you❤

Thank you so much for this beautiful video. We lost our 23 year old grandson over 2 years ago. Our hearts are still broken but we know someday we will see him again in heaven. Tears flowed freely as you spoke about loss. And yes someday the people and pets we love the most will be gone. Be blessed 😇❤️🤗🙏🏻

My new job starts next week! The last three years have been a struggle, but i feel that I'm cresting something lovely- you have been such a big part in that, Lea!

Loved this one so very much. Many sighs….

Beautiful - thank you!

Thank you for these beautiful words. Yes, 2 years ago I was saying goodbye to my father , 82, and I just knew that would be the last time I saw him on earth, I held on to him, weeping, and he held me tight. I was right. He went home to the Lord, shortly after. I believe, as you experienced with your brother, it was a gift, for I cherish that visit and hug with my dad. Thank You sweet Jesus. ✝️❤️🌍

Loved this one. Tearful, heartfelt and true.

My eyes filled up when you had that moment of gratitude looking at your husband and fur babies. Things can change in an instant, I know this. I now live in the moment having had to rebuild my life from loss. Your videos always bring me peace and comfort 🙏🏻

Tears in my eyes…a great lesson for us all!! ❤

Beautiful message ❤

Watching these videos is teaching me to slow down. I’m loving the quiet times I’m creating for myself. Thank you 🙏🏽

Girl, this totally made me cry! ❤

Leah, thank you for the beautiful video and a reminder to slow down. May God bless you and your family!❤

This one brought me to tears. Much aloha from Maui.

How beautiful it is to have such gratitude that you cry due to it. "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" is a fantastic hymn. I am so sorry to hear about your brother. That is extremely sad. I have two older brothers and that would devastate me to lose them.

What a beautiful video!

This was so profound and beautiful. I had to pause drinking my coffee as I was watching because the tears just flowed. Truly a beautiful reminder to enjoy every ordinary moment, especially with our loved ones ❤ Thank you and God bless 🙏🏻

You have inspired me so much that yesterday I started my first RU-vid channel. Country Potter. God Bless you super abundantly. Jerry & Janet

Such a melancholy video, but I loved it! Been feeling this way lately too. 😔

Your words, describing the beauty of slowing down and being in the moment, are delightfully poetic, but most important, .speak an absolute truth. We cn all race through life, at a pace where eveything is blurred, and we think more is more, when its quite the opposite. Have just come across your channel; the peace and serenity of it all, along with your partner and those lovely fur babies, makes for great viewing. Keep going!

I cry a lot missing those moments. My husband and my dad both got kidney cancer at the same time. And both are gone. My mom… everyone… I need those moments again more than life now..Almost home forever…

Thank you so much for sharing this. 💕

✨Thank you✨…Holding our beloved ones in our minds eye, and being grateful to the Lord for them is precious moments..❤ tucking that beautiful feeling into to our hearts to revisit again and again is truly a gift from God. ❤️

Beautiful...and very needed. Thank you Lea. xx

Hello! I am finally back. I have had a lot of headaches in adjusting to my new phone but now all the kinks have been worked out! Absolutely love your latest video. It is a wonderful reminder to me to never take those ordinary moments for granted.

Thank you Lea for this warm video. I have the same feeling with being at home with my terminally ill husband, when I spend special moments with him and our 2 loving fur babies lying next to us.

Dear sister, I sang this beautiful hymn today in my time with our Yeshua. Come thou Fount . Oh praise Him! The last time I saw my immediate brother alive before heading off to school, I hugged him too. We rarely hugged. Our all Knowing Lord knows ."Existing in the beauty of ordinary moments. " YAH bless you beloved sister. Thank you.❤

Thank you ❤ I needed this reminder to slow down and take in the precious moments. God bless.

I just loved the part where you could see your husband's arms wrap around you. That is a comfort to me to feel my husband's arms around me. It reminds me that we're both in this together no matter what we face during the day.

I always look forward to your videos ❤

GOD bless You all from Poland 🇵🇱😊❤

In Christ, yes you are the Best !

Beautiful thank you!

God Bless you and your family.

Hi! This videos made me a lil bit sad because it’s the reality of life. That’s why God wants us to love him above everyone and everything else because everything else will pass away. Praise his mighty name !

😢 I can relate 🙏❣

You are such a blessing 🙏 may you and your household in turn receive many blessings in return. I look forward to your videos and treasure all your works. I too love Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables, Avonlee, and Call of the Heart . As a young girl the Boxcar Children was another favorite of mine. I agree whole heartedly with you about embracing those moments each day. Have a peaceful afternoon darlin. May God Bless you 🌻🦋

Beautiful.

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I just came here cause I needed a little bit of your soft voice and calmness ❤ I was listening some alarming stuff and then I realized that I was afraid and just freaking out 🥺 so I thought I'm gonna pass by and see I know I'm gonna be better ❤ and it was better 😊thank u so much for sharing your heart ❤ God bless u all in the mountain ❤

Best video to date

Your one chicken’s feathers look like a thousand sliced almonds ❤ so beautiful

Thank you for

Paz, calma… admiro muito seu estilo de vida. ❤️🇧🇷

❤ God bless you all on this little mountain and all your loved ones. In Jesus name, amen. And your little brother may have all the heavenly peace and joy. In Jesus name, amen. 🙏🌹❤

God bless you ❤

Thankyou Lea for the beautiful jolt of reality 🙌🏽 For the last month of my moms life , I learned this lesson, and I'll never forget her smile, her eyes, scent, the way she poured out everything she had left like a warm blanket to cover each of us ❤

Sorry for your loss.

BEAUTIFUL 😊

You inspire me ❤❤

Would love a video with little tutorials of ways you put up your hair ❤

Wow ❤

Yes❤ Jesus Loves Us!!

God bless 🙏❤️

Thank you. Is it a woman thing? Luke 2 v 19" But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." The "moments" are so important, and if you cannot completely recall the time, the place, the circumstances.....you can surely recall the feelings. Positive or negative the feelings, perhaps even, now I stop to consider, the smells or sounds too, are there waiting to re-surface. Thank you for your thoughts and for the "moments of tranquillity" you bring. x💖

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Thank you. Happy Tears here. Also I love this dress, can you share where you got it from?

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Why Our Father created us? Why did He create at all? Being eternally, unchangingly perfect, it could not have been out of any kind of need, so it must have been out of desire. But, desire for what? I ask people often, "Why were we created?" People say things like, "To glorify God," but how can that be? Such a desire reveals weakness, and he who was from the beginning has no weakness. Glorifying Papa is a means to some other end. It is wonderful to glorify Him, but we are the recipients of the benefits that glorifying Him brings. Sometimes they say, "To serve God," but he who spoke the world into existence out of nothing certainly gains no benefit from being served by that which He created. Again, serving Him is wonderful, but we are the beneficiaries. I know that the answer is wrapped up in Revelation 4:11 (the true four one one about the purpose of creation!). We are, and were created, for His good pleasure. But what pleasure do we provide Him with that He does not have within the Godhead? God is love, and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all love one another. But we afford Him with a different flavor of love. The love of the Father for the Son (for example) is perfect. Always has been; always will be. Which means that the Father can never love the Son more. And that is what we provide. We can grow in our knowledge of The Father, and so increase in our love for Him. (The more you know a perfect object of love, the more you will love that object.) And we can never know Our Father exhaustively the way The Father and The Son know each other exhaustively (both of them being God). This means that He can enjoy the pleasure of ever increasing love throughout eternity as we get to know Him more and more forever. What a thing... Jesus told us that we call Him Lord and Master, and we do so rightly, but he said, "I have called you friends." Think about that. Think about just sitting in the same room with a friend. You don't have to say or do anything. Just being with them is better than being alone. Think about how much we desire to truly be known by another person. Why do we desire that? I think it is how Our Father reveals to us something about Himself. He wants to be known, too. He wants to interact with us. He wants to enjoy the pleasures of friendship with someone who is not...Himself. So God created not-God. Someone capable of interacting freely with Him, but different from Himself. When I see a bird, or a particularly beautiful cloud formation, I excitedly ask Him, "Do you see that?" Yes, I know it sounds ridiculous, but He has shown me that He loves it when I speak to Him like that. I used to follow such things with, "Of course you do. You're God. You see everything," but He gently rebuked me. He really wants to be loved, and interacted with, as a friend. I can no longer, "obey," Him. I simply want to enjoy friendship with Him, and righteous things are the kind of things Jesus wants to do when it is time for us to, "go out and play," together. He has stopped, "commanding," me, too. He lets me know what I should do, and I do it, because that is how friends are. I spent 31 years desperately trying to serve Him faithfully, only to trip and fall at almost every step of the way. But only almost every step. He graciously allowed me a few experiences of success, so I could taste and see that He is good. When I do things against His expressed desire, it is not a sin, properly speaking, because sin is transgression of the law, and He does not give me commands. The law is not for a righteous man (male or female). But, when I do contrary to what would naturally be thought of as a law, and would be considered a sin, I don't feel like a failure who has not lived up to a standard of righteousness. I feel terrible at the knowledge that I have hurt my best Friend's feelings. It truly rips my soul in pieces like nothing I've ever experienced before. I finally understand what John meant when he said we cannot sin. Of course I can go through the motions of what is commonly called sin. It still happens, but not all the time. And it happens progressively less and less because it just hurts so bad when I do. When I ask Him to forgive me, I always follow it up with a thank you, because I know He did, and it would be rude not to say thank you. When I started doing that, I was acting in faith on the knowledge that He did, in fact, forgive me at that very moment. This is what He means when He defines eternal life as, "Knowing Him, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent." Eternal life is not living eternally. Eternal life is, "knowing Him," like Adam knew His wife, and caused her to conceive. Eternal life is a quality of experience; not a duration. We were created to give Our Father pleasure. Ever increasing pleasure, forever. And it is His pleasure for us to drink of the river of His pleasures forever. He is such a good Father. He enjoys watching us open our gifts more than He enjoys opening His. He created us to enjoy blessing us forever! We get to eternally enjoy eternal life. I love that! And you display that in your videos. Thank you. Bill

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