Challenge

 Challenge: 

it's not that I see the emptiness of a starting page as some sort of challenge, a space to be filled with words that I have written - no, there's no real goal here to my writing, just a subtle inspiration arriving most mornings, a whisper, and then an urge to remember what's been heard. 

emptiness is never challenged.

as the page remains empty even with these words.

lending itself as capacity to embrace each morning's inspiration.

sacred in its hold. 

so in essence, emptiness is always the invitation for words to appear, a blank canvas waiting for first brushstroke, life, opening itself for our stories to be told. There is no challenge for its fulfillment, each particular word and brushstroke is equal in its beauty, every life is a sacred story. That's the true inspiration, that there exists an infinite emptiness for our lives to unfold in, never filled, but stretching endlessly onward for every possibility to be expressed. 

life isn't some sort of challenge, it's not a game to be won or lost, nor is it a battle to be conquered. 

it's art.

and emptiness is the essential starting point of inspiration, everything is received right here, in this exact moment, and then proceeds to the timeline of our stories. We are artist as well as the medium of our display - the empty page or canvas being no more than our own reflection. 

waiting only to be filled. 

~

Peace, Eric