Gifts of Gratitude

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” — Najwa Zebian

The Gift by Mary Oliver, Felicity

“Be still, my soul, and steadfast.
Earth and heaven both are still watching
though time is draining from the clock
and your walk, that was confident and quick,
has become slow.

So, be slow if you must, but let
the heart still play its true part.
love still as once you loved, deeply
and without patience. Let God and the world
know you are grateful.
That the gift has been given.”

To be awake in our days.
To love life while in it.
Messy, incomplete, beautiful, overflowing, undone, imperfect, authentic, hard, gorgeous, frustrating, thick, delicious.
All of it.
To live life twice, in real time and memory.
The gift of awareness.
Rooted on the ground we stand in this moment.
Fully present and knowing how fast and slow it changes.
Not running back, nor ahead.
To pause and steep longer to get the full flavor of ordinary moments.
Fluid, flexible, malleable.
Where gratitude and blessed are more than a hashtag or platitude, but real with a shift in perspective.
Thin spaces and wide-open fields of consciousness.
With deep reverence, wonder and awe.
Let’s meet here often.

“Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.” – Arnaud Desjardins