To Exist At All

To exist at all:

and mostly, it's about simply being grateful to exist at all, that right now the world is set up so perfectly in its acceptance, a true depth of belonging that astounds me to consider. My very next breath has an entire sky to draw from, an abundance of air delivered to my need. There was nothing done by me for this to happen, no grace earned for this ease of breath and the environment that allows for it, the universe is exactly right for my existence.  

my every breath is a prayer of being grateful. 

yet not just for me, through billions of years the world has altered its condition for life to follow, and in this a relationship of cooperation developed too. Earliest plant life emerged from the ocean and photosynthesized the land, drawing energy from the sun and releasing it in the vibrant green of possibilities. This would be the invitation for more and varied lifeforms to come forward and explore. And again the environment shifted in it's acceptance, changing just enough for life to flourish in design. Of all this to happen, such long and ever changing events through an unbroken chain to this exact and perfect moment...

to exist at all.

and this present breath is simply its continuation, life again being altered, evolving, mysterious in its change. I have no idea of what's to follow, how this breath will carry change in exhale, nourishing plants and forest, a cooperation found so subtle, intimate, between us. To exist at all is to be a participant in this continuation - I am not a singular event but a process of the whole, and this dates back to whatever urged a singularity to expand in energy, from a Big Bang of universal origin to this present breath now taken. To exist at all is to be grateful for this moment, breathing in everything that has ever given cause for this to happen, and exhaling its continuation to the world. 

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Peace, Eric