The Days of Our Lives

The days of our lives can be exhilarating or troubling, challenging or boring, joyous or sorrow-filled. The days of our lives can be overflowing or empty, complex or simple, easy or hard.

So many possibilities within the impossibility of life. But for now, let us pause and be content with the next moment, the next breath, the next heartbeat, the next thought.

Better yet, let that thought go, that you might not be pulled forward in the next moment, or the one after that. Instead, like a small feather falling onto a still pond, let yourself rest on the surface, so light that the water refreshes, but does not engulf, so light that you move slowly in response to the breeze, a small ship upon an infinite ocean.

So many possibilities within the impossibility of life, if we but take time out of the busyness to do nothing, no thing.

In this moment of time almost standing still, breathe, now breathe again. This is life flowing into you. Imagine that you heartbeat is an instrument that matches the rhytymn of you moments, minutes, hours, days, years, lifetime. One heartbeat for a lifetime, one heartbeat for a moment. They are really the same if you can slow yourself down enough to rest in the moment, rather than simply rush through it. As the moments slow down, your life increases. As the movements slow down, you can see and hear and savor and contemplate what it means to be alive.

So many possibilities within the impossibility of life. And now just silence, here together, heartbeat calling to heartbeat, so soft and clear and insistent and now

In the moment – In the silence – World without end!