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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