And life marches on....day 848. In life there is one given
we can count on: Life will continue to move forward. There is no
such thing as stopping in nature or life. The idea of hitting life's
pause button on any given day would be so helpful. Heavy sigh.....
Stopping time is a little like giving a toddle everything they want.
They think they want the hot pan to play with or the bag of candy.
Inside their little spirits is wishing and even demanding with passion.
And yet as an adult we knowingly and hopefully distract the little one's
laser focus towards something less harmful. The higher powers that watch
us on earth are probably smiling as we throwing our adult tantrums and
passionately wish with all our might for time would stop or at least slow down.
Thank heavens we don't always get what we
ask for. Time is meant to flow. Life is not stagnating, nor stuck.
Would you rather drink water out of a stinky, stagnate, murky pond or
from a vibrant creek that dances down the mountain? A tree will die when
nutrients stop flowing through its trunk. We need our bodies to flow.
We need our spirits to flow. We need our days to keep moving.
Plunk, plunk, plunk
Life is like time. Our job is to
keep flowing. Become connected with the natural rhythms of the seasons,
of the world and our own essence. In my ever moving path of 1000 days I'm
on day 848. What happened to all those days?? Where did they go?
Each had 24 hours or 1440 minutes. As I get older it seems time is
speeding up. My father in law is 80, he says "Denise time gets
faster and faster the older you get". Maybe this feeling of speedy
days is also part of the natural flow of life. Our days become more
precious with time.
Time moves, this is a fact. What can
we do? Fretting about past is wasted energy because you are trying to stop the
natural flow of life. Worrying over tomorrow depletes our today. Today,
instead of pondering what I did with the other 848 days or becoming anxious
over the remaining 152 days, my "job" today is to savor, play,
discover, enjoy, and dance with the wonders this day: day 848.
I ask Mary Oliver’s question: "What will you do with your one wild and
precious life?" Or maybe the question should be: What will you
do with your one wild and precious day?" It is not a matter of
slowing down or speeding up time but of jumping right in.
I wish you a delightful journey
discovering this one wild and precious day.
Denise
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