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It’s Monday.
By philip | April 28, 2008
I just arrived home from work, sat down to write my Monday post, and recognized that at this moment I am exquisitely tired in all ways. Physically I put in a decent day. Mentally I am wrestling with a pretty major life issue that is also taxing me emotionally. And spiritually… well, I need to sit for a while.
All of this provides a great moment to speak of the beauty of life. Yes I said beauty and no, it’s not because I am delusional. (Though I am sort of seeing double.) Moments like this are perfect for remembering that our days of exhaustion are just as great as our days of bliss.
It’s easy to philosophize and wax poetic about the oneness of things when the sun is shining and you are sitting barefoot on warm grass sipping iced vanilla-almond tea, surrounded by loved ones and happy puppies. But remembering in the darkness what is clear in the light is the true challenge put to us on the path of conscious living.
Today I am struggling to remember that all is one, and perfect according to the laws of the universe. I am struggling to remember that life is not meant to be pain free. I am struggling to love myself and go forth with my life despite gross amounts of fear and sadness, and I am struggling to be thankful.
I am struggling to remember that life is always beautiful.
So, in the “all-one” spirit of Ohanamalu, I bear my humanity and officially and on record say that I never said it was supposed to be easy. Sometimes it’s hard, and sometimes it hurts. And sometimes it is REALLY hard and hurts a LOT.
But we’re alive. And I, for one, am never more keen to that than in moments like this.
Peace is a verb.*`
Topics: life, as it comes |
July 14th, 2008 at 8:55 am
I know love is a verb, but yes, peace is too, I never thought it quite that way.