Monday, November 23, 2015

11.23.15 Living the old ways, all over again

     I was reading an email from my wonderful wise sister-in-law today, us contemplating how much changes. How easy it is to feel out of control, feel loss, as what we have enjoyed and valued, that then is no longer. It seems to me this is one of those trick questions, right? Where you can either spend your time miserable over and over again, as things change (which they always do and always will do), or filled with the sadness and then the pleasure of what we have been filled with , in our lives.
     Trick question; trick pony, it's not easy. Especially when things become older/more challenged/ more limited. Especially sooner than we had 'planned' or thought or imagined or hoped. But still, here we are, in our lives, empty lonesome days or days with a little spark right there on the precipice of our own awakening. To how it simply is like this, and always has been.
     The old ways, of resting in what is. Resting in your breath, right now. Resting in the sadness and the loss of the every coming and going and gone.
     Filled with the richness and the aloneness and the would have/could have/should have, and then settling down into the gift we are given today.

 

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