06-15-2010, 01:39 PM
(06-15-2010, 10:36 AM)Richard Wrote: The world will play out as the world plays out. Just like it has done for thousands of years. How you react to…or embrace the catalyst dealt to you in this lifetime is what is important. I don’t think it matters what is …or what we think is coming…if anything. But if something does happen? Can you recognize the learning opportunity inherent in the experience? That’s a tough one for us. Being human ties us to our emotions and the reactions to catalyst. We just do the best we can when disaster hits…and maybe…after a time of grief or sadness…realize the message in the lesson. Or not.
I try to face the future, but concentrate on the now. Looking for those jewel moments of now where you suddenly realize that everything, for now, is just perfect. I had one of those moments just this morning. My wife has up before I left for work. Like so many people these days, we are struggling with a job loss (hers)…but we are getting by. In any case, she was curled up by the arm of the couch, sipping a cup of coffee. I sat down beside her for few moments before going to work, we were snuggled up looking thru the front room window at the squirrels playing in the pine tree. Then my lil kitty..for whatever reason…jumps on the back of the couch and just drapes herself around my neck and rests her head against my lower jaw and left ear and starts purring like crazy. (she has never laid across my neck like that…ever)
So, I sit there with my wife snuggled on one side and a purring kitty on the other and…it just came to me….wow…what could be better than this moment? The problems of the day just faded out..and for a minute..I had ahold of a crystalline moment of now. Just incredible. Would that we could experience it all the time?…or perhaps its fleeting experience is what keeps us going?
Richard
thats a beautiful moment rich . thanks for sharing. i feel the same way when i spend time with my family i say to myself there is nothing
better than this at least not for me.