Take This Moment

Take this moment. Forget all the moments long gone nor should you worry about the moments that have yet to be. Just embrace this particular moment. Place this finite and fragile notion of existence into your hopefully gentle and loving hands, turn it over, hold it up to the light, smell it, go ahead and taste it, whisper to it, and when you have done all this return to where you began and take a very close look at it.

What defines this moment? Is it defined by where you are right now? Is the place that you find yourself associated with have something to do with this moment? Is it associated to you, your body or maybe your mind that is encapsulated inside your brain? The emotions and feelings that you feel, do they have some part to play in what makes this moment what it is? How about the people that may be with you? Does the social circle you participate in have some relationship to this moment? If you were not here right now would this moment cease to exist because it would not have a direct interaction with you?

This moment is all of these things, as well as more and less then all of this. It is what you will make of it in relation to what is there interacting with you and the moment. It is finite as well as infinite. It just is. It just was and will be. And you and it are kin. Neither can be without the other yet neither fully determines the form and function of the other. It is a cooperative agreement that to be is good enough and the rest is just icing on the cake.

This moment is both natural and supernatural. It is natural in so far as we are able to observe, experience, and record the causes and effects that occur with us, within us, and around us. It is supernatural in so far as we are humbled by the grandiose impression that the Universe leaves upon us, our understanding of It, and our sense of where we are in this grand scheme of things. It may be, on some levels, very observable and knowable, while on other levels we have not the faintest clue, if none at all, as to what is going on.

This moment reminds us that all things have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Nothing escapes this nor can corrupt this fundamental rule. It applies to all aspects of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual composition and is very much what composes everything else that is around us. The beginning of something is that initial burst of placing that something into the game of life. It starts, is infused with the energy of the moment in which it began and then continues onwards until that point it reaches in which something occurs that removes that energy and that something transpires and leaves this state of being to continue onwards to where ever such thing goes.

You define this moment as much as this moment defines you. It is a cooperative dance between what is, what can be, and what was. This triune nature is the beat of the dance in which us and the moment find ourselves. No matter whether we are the foreground and the moment is the background, or visa versa, we are still essential aspects of the image. And an image is worth a thousand words. Or in this case a thousand moments.

Make ever moment in which you are a moment filled with the essence of potential. Make the moment embrace who you are and who you should decide to become. When there comes a point where you and the moment are inseparable then you have become ready for the next step in this vast and incredible journey we call life. I hope to reach that cliff’s edge so that I may stand beside you and look down upon the valley in which the path continues and in which a warm and sustaining sun sets down to sleep but for a short time beyond the horizon.