To Be In It All

“The world is beautiful and dangerous, and joyful and sad, and ungrateful and giving, and full of so, so many things. The world is new and it is old. It is big and it is small. The world is fierce and it is kind, and we, every one of us, are in it.”― Mark Twain & Philip Stead

“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.” – Virginia Woolf

To break free from assumptions, judgment, comparison
To cross the threshold into the glory and beauty of this day
Not someday when, soon, after, before
But amid riddles, twists, turns, unknowing, struggle, uncertainty, detours, delays
Beyond our comprehension, anchored in hope, in a still small voice
Whispering
This is your life
Pay attention, anticipate, imagine
Interrupt old patterns, habits, expectations
Life is flowing, bubbling
Beneath the surface
Wider, deeper, broader
Pause, reset, reboot
Dive a bit deeper
Stay a bit longer
Open hands, soft heart, fresh eyes.

“God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.”― St. Augustine, City of God