Thankful Thursday: No Ordinary Moments

It can’t really be Thurs­day again already! What hap­pened to the week? Where did it go?

Does time pass quickly in your life? Do you blink and find that it is already Thurs­day again?

Is the quick pas­sage of time a bless­ing or curse in your life?

I am con­stantly amazed by how fast time passes. I never get used to it, always get caught off-guard and am frus­trated by the fact that I am inca­pable of slow­ing it down.

Is that because I am always busy and have never checked off the last item on my to-do list? Is it just because I am get­ting older so time elapses at the same rate it always has but it just feels to me like it is mov­ing faster?

Or is it because of the way we live in the year 2007?

I think it is a com­bi­na­tion of all of those things, although the pace of our lives is much dif­fer­ent than at any other time in his­tory. I have wracked my brain and I can­not recall my par­ents com­plain­ing about the pas­sage of time the way my con­tem­po­raries and I do. I remem­ber them remark­ing that they could not remem­ber exactly when a par­tic­u­lar event occurred, observ­ing that they lost track of time, espe­cially as they got older. But although they were very hard-working peo­ple who rarely sat idle, I just can’t bring to mind a moment when they com­plained of time slip­ping away from them the way it seems to in my life.

Do you believe in serendip­ity? ((The word means “good luck in mak­ing unex­pected and for­tu­nate dis­cov­er­ies.”)) I believe that serendip­ity is the human term for a super­nat­ural event, i.e., the Spirit point­ing us in the direc­tion we are to walk or toward the knowl­edge we are sup­posed to obtain at any par­tic­u­lar point in our lives.

I had a serendip­i­tous moment as I was writ­ing this arti­cle. I believe that it came to me via the Spirit and I was meant to read the words Karen wrote at Live the Power today in her post enti­tled “Mind­ful­ness and Man­i­fes­ta­tion”:

Our lives are made up of moments, just short flashes of time, con­nected into the hours that lead into the days. We can only live in the moment at hand, the here and the now is the only point of attrac­tion that we can con­trol in our lives, yet how often do we miss that here and now? How often do we miss those pre­cious moments?

We often lose time when we are immersed in a joy­ful ((Iris, our host from Sting My Heart, wrote about joy today!)) activ­ity and we are liv­ing our bliss. And while we may not be aware of the pas­sage of time in those instances, that is often when we are feel­ing the most joy.

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There is a peace and a tran­quil­ity that can be found from being present in the here and now. It is just notic­ing your thoughts and activ­i­ties, feel­ing the nuances, see­ing the beauty, sens­ing your life…

Prac­tice a level of mind­ful­ness. Notice the moments of your life. Be aware of your thoughts and actions before those moments slip away.

“There Are No Ordi­nary Moments”

(from “The Way of the Peace­ful War­rior” by Dan Millman)

What a great out­look and serendip­i­tous reminder to me to be thank­ful for each and every moment of each and every day, no mat­ter how quickly those moments evap­o­rate, blend­ing into new moments, like an ocean wave that reaches the shore, blends with and merges into the new wave rolling in right behind it so that they are both part of the whole.

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