Life Only Welcomes

 Life only welcomes:

never saying no - life is continuous in its acceptance, whatever appears instantly belongs without argument to say otherwise. My life is a testament to this, filled by moments of misfortune in perhaps equal measure to what's been cherished. To be alive is to welcome all that comes without delay, and even any argument against this becomes part of this reality. Life only accepts. 

this includes loss, that which feels taken is part of this belonging - to lose what's loved is to find that sorrow has now been welcomed, grief to be expressed as an adjustment to this change, an understanding that the present moment now holds a tender new reality, and one that needs much offered love and compassion. 

there is no bias here, life only welcomes, and to know this brings me a certain peace even as I counter it with a denial of my own. There is much I don't understand, so much to question of both past and what's to come - and yet there are no true answers, at least not that I have found, none that provide any sense of permanence and safety from life changing. What I've arrived to is not answers, but the grace of mystery, a lessening of the need to understand why things happen, only that things are allowed without say from my authority. It seems that I too am welcomed guest here, accepted as an aspect of life, honored in a brief awareness of this existence. 

life only welcomes, and this is my only real insight. It's enough, providing an ease for my own acceptance of what is now, and what might later appear, that mystery too holds me in its grace, and that all is always welcomed, even if it's beyond my present understanding. 

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Peace, Eric