WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LIFE?

WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LIFE?

 

There is a coziness not from a bubbling mountain stream or a sunset on the beach, but rather from a life lived ecstatically.  Sounds good in theory doesn't it?  But who can admit to living each and every day ecstatically? Certainly not me and probably not many of us.  Each new day, as in each new year, we look forward to a new adventure full of promise and fulfilled desires and dreams. But not too far into that new year, we are inundated and inculcated with the same stuff we hoped would never reappear. Then once again the dreams take a back seat.

We are not perfect.  And wouldn't it would be nice to think that in our imperfection we were to suddenly find we are perfect? This morning I would like to conjure up remarkable mental images and phrases that would drip with emotion and beg to be remembered as inspirational.  But they aren't coming. 

Sometimes we fill up the vessel of our consciousness with so much fluff and distraction and so much noise that we miss the whispers from the intuitions in our hearts that are there to guide us, to protect us and to lead us in the direction we are hopeful will find us thriving and happy.

I read recently that "the visible world is sustained by the invisible."  Think about this statement and what it might mean to you.  To me it means that we are dreamers who cannot let our dreams die. For then what would be the purpose? Dreams of that which makes our soul sing, our heart rejoice, and our very being purposeful. Our ideals live in us, just as our dreams are stored in a special place deep inside us where we hope one day to realize them.

 

"TO BE NOBODY BUT YOURSELF IN A WORLD THAT'S DOING ITS BEST TO MAKE YOU SOMEBODY ELSE, IS TO FIGHT THE HARDEST BATTLE YOU ARE EVER GOING TO FIGHT.  NEVER STOP FIGHTING." ~ ee Cummings

 

From The Book of Days: "There is no use trying" she said.  One can't believe impossible things.  I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen.  When I was your age I always did it for half an hour.  Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible thing before breakfast." ~ Lewis Carroll

 

So perhaps when things look bleak and you can't seem to break free and find the joy that should be your destiny and your right right, try believing in your dreams and you just might find yourself believing in six impossible things before breakfast. Never give up.  Work toward your dreams. They just might be closer than you think.  Look inside your heart and see if you can't find them there hidden underneath a smile you may not have used in a very long time.  A smile that is true and honest and not forced.

I end with a quote that seems most apropos to me today. "Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.  They are not only telling the secret of who you are, but more often than not of the mystery of where you have come from and are summoning you to where you should go next." ~ Frederick Buechner

 

Where do you want to go next? Where is your journey taking you?