Live intentionally. How do you fulfill your mission? On purpose. So stay on purpose.
Is it time for a change? Too late; while you were asking the question, everything changed.
Ride the wind, they say. But what is the wind? An ever-shifting maelstrom of interactions, some intentional, mostly random, some proactive, mostly reactive. The intentional and proactive can influence the direction of the maelstrom somewhat – ride the wind, and keep a hand on the tiller.
Take time to learn. But not too much time; what you’ve learned has already changed.
The wind howls. Ride the wind. But what is the wind?
Where does the story begin? How do you know to end it, and when?
Only you can determine those answers. Consider them carefully, but find an answer. In the time you’ve taken to think about it, everything has changed.
But of course, in this troubled crazy world, The solution is to be fruit-bearing, Fruit that is ripe and not reeking Of the rot and decay of the age or The lust for instant gratification. Spirit lifters may take some time. Is is too much to ask for a modicum of Love that reaches past angry words and feuds, Joy in the fullness of life everywhere, Peace beyond the understanding of us mortals, Patience with the process of becoming, Kindness even toward the unkind and mean, Goodness in the face of oncoming evil, Faithfulness to the truths that lift us from depths, Gentleness that turns away vicious assaults, And, when the final victory is at hand, Self-control to stay the course and claim the prize?
Every morning there is a choice to be made between light and dark, life and death, sickness and health. Words heal and words destroy. This day, this minute, shall I heal or shall I destroy? The power is in this remarkable organ between my ears.
The body cries inertia. The false death of sleep is so tempting, so comfortable, but life is movement, life is of the soul, life is of giving. Heal thyself, and begin to heal the world.
A choice must be made. Each day you choose life or death, light or dark. No choice is still a choice. The universe, they say, is moving inevitably toward entropy — at some point all energy is used up — but you may use the energy to serve entropy or to build. Life or death, light or dark, building or destruction. So easy it is to destroy — so beautiful it is to build, to preserve beauty, to conserve for later valued use.
Choose to greet the light. Build the fire of warmth, not the fire that burns maliciously. Push and overcome inertia. Life, reach ever higher — crawl, then walk, then dance. All of life is art — what are you creating — what does your dance look like?
Light, not dark. In the dark the sounds are strange and unknown. The light shows its beauty, reveals the joy, unleashes the known, banishes fear, generates knowledge. Serve the light and not the dark. Good morning. Time to wake up.
(Ironically, the light of the computer screen serves the darkness, mesmerizing the viewer, stealing minutes and hours.)
[From my first completed journal, April 16, 2015. I posted this in slightly different form as “Choose your fire today, this minute,” on my old blog, here, and included it in A Bridge at Crossroads. For this post and people interested in how creative choices are made, I restored the original pronoun in the last sentence of the first paragraph and the previously omitted second paragraph, as well as the parenthetical thought at the end.]
