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| Aug 2, 2006 |
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Page 1 of 2 Mid-week Inspiration, The summer is quickly rolling away. It sometimes seems to me that my greatest purpose every summer is to find ways to make this one go faster than the last one. They certainly seem to, as do the rest of the seasons if I look at them in perspective. Two changes in my life create this fascinating situation. The first is simply my aging; my years of tenure here on spaceship earth give a continually greater breadth of view. The second reason for this experience of racing time is of my own conscious creation. I am passionate about life. I love my life and I love to be fully involved in it. There is hardly a moment that goes by that I am contemplating a leisurely cup of coffee. Often I joke with people that I couldn’t possibly enjoy a two week five star vacation on a tropical beach. Within an hour I would start to become bored. I’d be looking for something to fill my inquisitive attention; probably with the most readily provided something; a newspaper or the TV. And we all recognize today how devastating that can be to an otherwise balanced mind, with the continuing overbalance of overemphasized and overstated disasters on the news. Yes, it is me who has made my life the way it is. I just keep finding every morning when I open my eyes there is more of this beautiful God creation to discover. There are people I have never yet met with ideas and opinions completely divergent from my own. There are things I have never done; places I have never gone and wonders I have never seen right here in my own back yard. There is nothing this body and mind want more than to discover life as fully as possible during these brief hundred or so years I have to be here. Every day I embrace a full day of work/play, a new day to give and share of myself. Every time I find myself with nothing to do I start looking; today I have four or more jobs. Each one I do because I love to do it. I am creative with my time; I find ways to overlap my work. I find ways to utilize ‘wasted’ time and as busy as I tend to be I make a point of enjoying the moment. I am even coming to appreciate bureaucracy, as standing in lines gives me opportunity to be in the moment, appreciate my world and envision what I would like it to be. This visioning is key for me to directing my energy. It is the only way to consciously open the door to new possibilities. |