Can we not see that the world isn’t going to hit a reset button and go back to where it had been before…. Before the pandemic, before we fell in love, before the call from the doctor, before….
The world keeps turning. Changing. “Like sand through the hour glass.” So begins a Soap TV show. But it is true. Even in an hourglass the sand grains don’t go through the middle in the same order, in the same way. Yes hourglasses have one thing, a determined about of time it takes to empty from top to bottom.
Is that what our world is really like… An hourglass? That the time filters down one grain at a time, for the specific time we have to spend, to live here. We can’t change the fact that time is changing. That things move on.. That these are the good old days…Things will not go back.
We can remember the before of our lives. Some of those remembers are sweet and other bitter. A mixture that brings real excitement into our daily living. Pema Chodron said in a talk one time that the best question we can ask every morning is, “I wonder what is going to happen today?’
So the before, or yesterday is past and tomorrow is only a dream. We have to live into the here and now. We have to say, “Well, alright then.” To be true I am not advocating resignation or stagnation. I am noticing that we must confront the whole of it as people who grow into the days that are given us.
Remember the opening of the movie Milagro Beanfield War? The old gentleman gets up out of bed, walks over to his mirror and sink, looks at this reflection and says, “Thank you God for giving me another day.”
So then two questions, two intentions, two preparations, “I wonder what is going to happen today? And, “Thank you God for another day.”
How will you mark each of your days? How will you make certain that the way that you don’t miss taking your turn?
Friends, I don’t have the answer to these questions or wonderings. All I can offer is best wishes, and God speed.
Remembering
God Abides
Bobbie giltz mcgarey , 3.24.21 bethlehem, pa
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