Releasing

This time is rich and full and challenging.  Large transformation is occurring.  In order to let in a new experience we must let go of old experience, old beliefs.  Often there are also parts of our lives and elements in our cells which just have to exit before regenerative energy can be brought in.  Emptying out; taking in.  Every day we breathe.  In, out...in, out.  Every piece of our life experience repeats this same process, in forms that are both microcosmic and macrocosmic.  The greater our awareness is of this life rhythm, the gentler, smoother, and easier is our interaction with all of life.  Releasing becomes a practice for the Soul.      

"Let go, and let God."                   --Unknown

This Moment

One day this week I started my day thinking of the "million" things  I needed to do.  I went to work continuing to think about the "million" things I could be doing if I was at home.  As the day went on, I began to notice that being at work was a sort of respite from the "million" things I needed to do at home.  By the end of the day I was reveling in the butterflies I saw, the cooler temperatures after such a long, hot summer, and generally exulting in the fact that it was a beautiful summer day.

Each day challenges us to meet it head on--face to face, moment by moment.  We're invited to fully inhabit these days.  There are superb gifts in each moment, if we take the time to be present.

"Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite.  It actually takes guts.  Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.  We can do this even at the most difficult moments.  Everything we see, hear, taste, and smell has the power to strengthen and uplift us."                                                                                            --Pema Chodron