Tuesday, January 11, 2022

On Being Present

 


On Being Present

            In these days of great busy-ness and many distractions, it is easy to become bewildered, lose our focus and be anything but what is often called…”present.”   In other words, our awareness, our attention, our mindfulness can be somewhere else… not accessible to us at the moment.  Our bodies may be on hand, but the rest of us is elsewhere. There is nothing particularly awful about this, but it does mean that the wisdoms and graciousness that we might bring to a circumstance may not be momentarily available to us, and their absences may deny us an instance that needs our healing skills.

We always have the opportunity...           

 Whether we know it or not, we are always necessary to wherever we find ourselves.  We always have the opportunity to bring our love, our peace, our joyous healing wherever we go… unless we are not present to the moment.  Of course, of course we will be again.  We will be gathered together; we will be equal to the healing spot… but maybe not now.

What our "present-ness" means...          

 Maybe we should consider what our “present-ness” means.  Is it important enough for us to practice inherent clarity in our thinking so that we can count on ourselves when a need arises?  Are we really aware of the essential gifts that we carry with us, and do we trust ourselves to know how to use them?  Hmmmm…… perhaps this is worth thinking about… in a very present fashion.

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