As This

As this:

just as this - and it's our genuine expression, authentic in fault as well as the brilliance of being completely human in our ways. There is no transcending this moment, ordinary and divine at once. Our only call is to relax fully as we are.. 

just as this.

what we are is as effortless as breath; it's the ease of receiving light from sun and air to function. We come to the world by grace, our cares are met from first moment on, and none of this planned for our arrival. It's all simply ready for life to proceed, no different than a tree root deep in its belonging. We are a natural effect of life's continuation, uncomplicated in our humanness, at peace within the world. Of course none of this disregards struggle, nor dismisses that life so often holds sorrow and its share of suffering. Nothing is denied through the course of living. Yet our realization is in being whole, and this must include all that life offers, without bias to our pleasure, nor bypassing what gives cause to suffering. We live life as it comes to us, accepting it all even as we struggle to understand the mysteries of its ways. 

every bit of this is natural. 

and so we drop the effort of trying to belong, no more demands for life to be anything other than what it is right now. Everything meets us here; grace and the divine in the ordinariness of being human. No more than this is needed. 

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Peace, Eric