How It All Unfolds

 How it all unfolds:

how it all unfolds, always ending here, exactly where we are, and whatever present circumstances found, regardless of our actions taken and how much effort given. Life has it's own agenda, full of mystery and surprise, and at every point we are left to wonder at its course. Our best intentions never fully steer its way, and no plan is ever truly certain. We are immersed within its flow. 

of course we've long believed ourselves in charge, mistaken in our thoughts that we have hold of life and could force it to our way. Yes, plans are important, goals serve and provide a purpose, and in no way do I discount this. Yet life remains a mystery, having it's own course, and we are never fully privy to its ways. It's with this in mind as well as in hindsight, that we come to trust life, giving mystery its due, and no longer try to force the world our way. Life makes us gentle through its course of time, our battles no longer remain fierce in their struggles, but accepting now, wiser, and we come to know ourselves as aspect of its flow, never separate from its mystery.

we are part of how it all unfold, essential to its nature.

so, yes, we make plans, intentions, but hold it all so very lightly. Our every point is exactly where we need to be, indeed, it's the only place we'll ever find ourselves. Here, now, and this is where life has brought us, happy or otherwise, satisfied or not, there is no escaping this present moment. Nor should we even try, life is still in motion, mystery continuously unfolding, and again we are part of how it all unfolds. Life is never a settled matter - a flower's bloom is a long affair of sunlight given through seasons, roots nourished through winter's snow and storms, a fragile bud trusting in the warmth to come. So many things must happen for this bloom, and nothing sure is ever promised to a seed. Yet the potential to flower is inherent to its nature, always present, essential to the fabric of its being. 

and so it is with us, for every moment being true, we are nourished through storm and winter, even as we feel alone, unsure of spring's arrival. There is always our potential to bloom. Yet each aspect of life offers us its full nature, with no season ever separate from its flow. This is where we are, perfectly delivered, and this moment is all we're truly promised. 

now, is our time to bloom, or to be nourished through the length of winter.

trust, 

this is how it all unfolds.

~

Peace, Eric