Morning Prayer 30/100. Here and now.

Here and now — this place at this instant — is reality. Nothing else is. Here and now can be very hard to stay in.

What happened 5 minutes ago was reality then. The turkey and cheese sandwich I made then is still reality, sitting here on the desk beside my laptop. However, the act of making it is no more. The moment when I made it is gone forever. I can return to the kitchen, but if time and space are truly united, that place at that instant is gone forever, too.

I don’t mean for every one of these postings to be based on my morning run, but lately those 30 minutes or so have been idea-rich. This morning’s certainly was. About 100 yards out of the driveway, just picking up my slow-start rhythm, something made me think “everywhere.” Just the word “everywhere”. That took me to thoughts of “everywhere I’ve been” which is quite a few places. But I’ve friends and family dedicated travel, ready and willing to go anywhere. By travelling anywhere eventually they may be able to claim they’ve been everywhere.

Then as I looked up at the sunrise pink sky, in my mind’s eye I saw the word EVERYWHERE. And then I saw it  this way: everywHERE. And then like this: every HERE.

Here and now is a phrase I often wrestle with. I wrestle because I love here and I love now. I love making the moment to look at sun’s waking up. I thrill to realizing that as I run my here changes one step to the next. I am excited by intellectually realizing that what just happened is gone forever. Forever. And that’s wrestling because I also love my ever-increasing store of memories from there and then. As well, I’m an anticipator extraordinaire who takes great joy from looking forward to whatever is to happen.

Mindfulness is essentially conscious awareness of the here and the now. It’s bringing the mind to the present time and the present place because this is the real moment. No other moment but this moment is real.

This morning I ran through the smell left by a skunk. Made me think of the skunk Alex and I spotted a couple of days ago. I wondered if it was the same skunk and immediately laughed. No, can’t be the same skunk (even if it is) and I am not exactly the same person who spotted the skunk day before yesterday. Here and now. Real time. Real place. Different skunk. Different me.

Good Friend God,
I love you right here, right now.
I receive and accept your love right now, right here.
The more completely I can BE in the moment,
aware of the place I am standing, the sky above me,
the air in my lungs right now
the more consciously alive my BEing is.
That lets me be alive in my awareness
that I am ONE with you and so with all that is.
There’s joy for me in remembering
and there’s excitement for me in anticipating.
And there’s blessing for me in knowing
that I remember and I expect from this precious moment
in this precious place.
Here and now.
Thank you, God. And so it is.
Amen.

Love and blessings,

 

 

08/27/2015

 

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