Although I marvel at the sun that
causes me to wake a little earlier each day, as it pours in over my warm bed
covers, it is the moon that brings about a gentle softness to my face and presents
me with utmost peace.
Sometimes life winds up before it
winds down. I always seem to feel this way in the spring, just before summer
holidays approach. This being May 1st, I turn to the new page that
resides on our family web calendar as well as the synchronized paper one, on
our refrigerator, and it is blatantly evident how full May already seems. I
then remind myself that I have more than enough time to do all that I want or
need to do today, because after all, it is only today that matters. Ahh… so
easily stated. I love the wisdom of the wise.
My to-do list today looks much like
other days with slight variations and like most to-do lists, does not have
everything on it just the things that I want to make certain I attend to.
- exercise
- meditate
- write
- Centennial “Stuff”
- email youth re: Friday’s meeting
- marinate pork
- pick up Jillian @ 5:30
- make appointments for Jillian’s hair
- call to confirm dinner invitation for Max’s friend
- get mail ready to go to town
- mow lawn
It does not matter if I get
everything on my list done but it is important to me that I have a focal point
from which to work from. For years, I would have put exercise, meditate and
write at the bottom, or more often than not, omit them entirely. I have learned
that these undertakings are of utmost importance to all else that I do. These
acts combined, are the substance of my life that offer me release, peace and
purpose for today is what matters most to me and is all that really
exists. I have memories of past todays and thoughts about future todays but in
reality, only now. “Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only
reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of
light, power and reality of the eternal present.” Eckhart Tolle
~ Ellyn
~ Ellyn
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