Of A Lifetime

Of a lifetime:

it's of a lifetime - and for however long this grace will hold. There is no call to speculate beyond this, for right now we are alive, aware, and anything more is simply an extension of this gift. This is the only moment that we're promised, and knowing this brings a precious note to our attention. A lifetime is most truly measured by the quality of experience, by the depth of love we've given, and how freely we allow our authentic expression to be shown. 

through this - a moment is indeed of a lifetime.

yet philosophies and religions so often promise more - and really this isn't their prerogative to give, nor ours to believe and base our lives upon. To project beyond this life we're living robs us of attention to what's occurring now. To be aware is such a gift and we're blessed with such a varied world, complete within each moment, and not one thing could add a further pleasure to this if we fully cherish the easiness of simply being alive. In no way does this dismiss that there is suffering too, no experience is diminished nor judged to be unworthy of our life. Aware, sorrow is equal to our joy, but only in its showing. To see this we gain a certain freedom to express ourselves through suffering, we're honest to the moment, and allow life to unfold without deception. 

we accept life through every ache and hurt. 

aware.

of course sometimes we don't accept this, we fight exactly what the moment holds and lend our beliefs to another world, a lifetime not with sorrow and pain. We give our faith to heaven, a promise of absence to suffering, nirvana. That's life too, a fantasy being imagined in this very moment. We're still  here, present, aware, vibrantly alive. 

only attention wanders.

and of a lifetime is our return - always to this, right now.

alive.

~

Peace, Eric