All In Good Time
“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.”
~ Bil Keane
I have felt a sometimes unfailingly stringent and precise grip on my experience, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, alternating with a complete sense of ease and grace, knowing that all is happening perfectly and effortlessly. So which of these feelings is true? Both feel so real and present that it is sometimes difficult to discern the truth.
Can you relate? Does your mind sometimes apply pressure that is not real to situations? Do you use time against yourself? Do you allow time to be an escape route from what is present in the here and now?
So all of this has me thinking about our relationship with time on this planet. How this illusion (as Einstein called it) can bring a sense of emergency into any situation, sometimes leaving us absolutely certain there is not enough of anything, including ourselves. The idea of time is also the culprit in many instances of suffering, and then there is the way we use the illusion of time to distract from what is present.
Time is one of life’s funny energies that has the ability to place pressure on an otherwise lovely day. For instance, let’s say that you are enjoying a morning hike with your beloved pup, and you have nothing else scheduled for the…
