Wisdoms from the Journey - Vol IV (Nov 2011 thru Apr 2012)

Pausing to BE …
(03/29/2012)
“We may not all live holy lives,
but we do all live in a world alive with holy moments.”
~ Kent Nerburn
It seems like there is just too much to do these days. I find myself juggling
so many tasks — tasks that are all designed to help others in some way, and yet
tasks that I feel are all important things to do; all important things to “get done”.
And if I’m not truly Care-full, all this busyness can start to stress me out.
Well, I stopped long enough this morning to realize that each of you
probably know exactly what I am talking about … I stopped long enough to
realize that maybe this “too much to do” syndrome is an innate part of our human
programming. Maybe we are designed to “do — Do — DO” because our
primitive brains believe that doing anything “productive” is what keeps us alive —
or is what protects us from imminent danger — or is what prepares us to survive if
it ever “hits the fan” — or is simply what a “responsible person” does.
Well, this morning I woke up to another Truth — one that I think also
applies to every one of you just as well as it applies to me. Ad that Truth is this
one: IT IS OK TO PAUSE & look around!
An unknown Wise One once said that “Juggling is dropping things with
style”, and this wisdom helps me to bring it all into perspective. For everything is
NOT going to get done to our satisfaction. Once we realize that we are so often
“juggling bubbles”, we come to realize that some things are simply going to have
to be “dropped”.
And once we do drop them, it is OK for us to do the dropping of them
Purpose-fully … It is OK to gently pop the bubbles of hope and fear and worry
that we are so earnestly juggling … It is OK to let the “to do” list sit for awhile
and just BE instead — to just BE while consciously soaking up the amazing
Beauty that surrounds us in every moment of our lives.
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