Just About Here

Today I woke up a little melancholy.  It has to do with the fact that my step son, 8, is to spend the next two weeks with his momma.  It got me thinking about what I was going to fill my time with as when he is here, our world moves a little faster.  Before I knew it, my melancholy moody mind quickly moved from thoughts like, "wow I have a whole two weeks to do anything how cool is that?" to  "omg I will never have enough time to do everything I have to do!"  Instead of following that rabbit down the hole, I decided to take a chill pill, make a cup of chai tea, and check in on Facebook before waking the boy up to get him ready and off to summer school.  The first thing I saw when I logged in was this:

The more you think 'you HAVE to do'....the more there is to do. Take time to enjoy
The more you think 'you HAVE to do'....the more there is to do. Take time to enjoy
The more you think 'you HAVE to do'....the more there is to do. Take time to enjoy
Repeat as necessary.

My friend Wendy, who I have not seen since we graduated 30 years ago, posted it.  I just laughed.

I don't know why things like this amaze me, things that appear just when you need them, even though you don't even know you need them.   I like to think that they are personal messages to me from God; or my guardian angel responding to my unasked question, my unformed thought, my formed thought.  It doesn't matter, just as long as I am open to receiving them.  I also find that the more open I am to receiving these messages, the more they appear, like looking for a four leaf clover:  you can't find one if you don't look at the clover patch.

Taking a deep breath, I relaxed and made the conscious decision to let the day unfold as it would instead of how I thought it should and continued checking in with my FB peeps.   As I looked at the monitor, up popped a photo, the one of the canoe above, a post from another high school friend, John.  The caption he put with it was "Here."  Just looking at the photo, a serenity washed over me.  Of course.  Another personal message reminding me that at any time I can transport myself to "here." 

John and Wendy don't know it, but I am hanging with them today.  Today I am enjoying being "here."  In fact, I am so "here" that I think I just got a mosquito bite or two.  I can feel the buzz of the quietness that blankets the forest and the water of Upper Michigan.  I can hear what I am really thinking, not what I think I am thinking.  I am the enjoyment.  I am in joy.

Here.

What a lovely place this is.

 

 

 

 

doing. 

Comments

[Lisa]

Once again... WOW!