When there is nothing to fall back onto but everything to live in
Was I influenced by the thought yesterday that our imaginations even when positive can take us away from the present moment?
As I was waiting in the on-line Quaker meeting I could hear the birdsong outside my window, I could see the brilliant green of the leaves bursting forth from the trees, I could sense my weigh upon the chair, the smells were how they should be so nothing usual other than the reassurance of normal as was my taste.
In the meetinghouse, I am surrounded by other friends here other friends are on-line and I am surrounded by the everyday glories of nature. I thought often about life being ‘one great Quaker meeting’ being moved rather than being rushed or pulled. Being aware of what surrounds us and at ease with it.
I wondered had the early Quakers discovered living in the present as many of us are rediscovering now. So we almost force ourselves to be present by not playing the hymns of yesteryear that hold sentiment and nostalgia. I love the hymns but they are bringing me back to a moment. Here and now we are forcing ourselves into the mystery of the moment where we have not rehearsed and therefore cannot perform but we can be fully alive.
There is nothing to fall back onto but everything to live in.
Best day,
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Now for a church song
