Life happens in micro seconds, it is constantly flowing and becoming - as they say, "the only thing constant is change".
When I experienced an out of control vehicle tumbling down the road towards us, I was watching reality unfold.
In micro seconds, flip, flip flip, would we be caught up with this rolling vehicle?
How would this end?
I could feel how out of control we really are in life.
How it changes in seconds.
And, how it doesn't stop to ask our permission.
Instead it comes speeding towards you.
Often change is like this, a fast rolling car out of control.
Other times, there are subtle changes, things that happen slowly over time.
Regardless, change is always happening.
Life is moving.
Onward.
Forward.
No repeating and going back.
No do overs.
I love the dance and the aliveness of it all.
Leaving nothing for tomorrow.
Or next hour.
It is here.
Alive.
And, so are we.
We greet life as it arrives.
Not as our minds create it.
Life is ever present.
It doesn't wait for the mind's dialogue or permission.
Forever moving regardless of how you engage.
I am delighted by its reckless abandon to our plans.
Our dreams and hopes.
Its powerfulness leaves me with nothing to control.
I love that most.
I am not in control of how things go, who lives and who dies.
No amount of worry or angst will stop the flow of life.
We are here today, in this moment in time.
This moment is given and the next is unsure and without guarantee.
Living in this second, engaged with what is happening, IS where life is.
No matter where our minds want to take us, life is here.
I spent so much of my life in my head, in the believe-a-head world, where I thought, my thoughts mattered more than life. Where the church spoke about 'forgiveness of sins' as if it could change life. As if it could change what had happened. As if the mind had more power than life itself.
What I know now, is that the mind while being powerful, it doesn't trump life.
It can have you sitting on the sidelines, but it will not control the flow of life.
Mind has the ability to make you believe it can change perceptions; It can only lay words upon reality. The mind's ability is to deny reality, but it cannot build it.
The mind can block you from reality.
But, reality rolls on.
There truly feels like there are only two forces at play, the mind and then reality.
Life happens.
If we are aware and accept it, we are with it.
If we fight what is, we are at war with reality and reality wins only but 100% of the time.
A rolling vehicle is reality, until it stops.
We drive on.
Unhurt.
Not our time to suffer.
The sun shines, birds sing, clouds drift, cars move, people walk, we love.
My mind is a peace with the changing flowing life.
I have lived blind to reality.
In denial.
I now see.
Whether it is a magnificent sunset or an accident.
The good, the horrible, the tragic and the delightful, the joy, and love...I see and feel this.
What ever this is.
Life is alive calling us to dance its tune.
The happy dance or the waltz of suffering.
Each of us will know its moves.
Today, the birds sing, the fan blows, the tea is warm, the child sleeps...
I awoke to life in progress.
I move and join its dance.
Our dance partner is what is happening right now!
