This post has a soundtrack that I encourage you to listen to as you read it, as I listened to it as I wrote it.
Go to Father Sleep's Free Music Archive webpage, and click the play triangle to the left of 01. Over the River and Through the River (03:35).
Sometimes breaks happen. Sometimes the breaks are mental, sometimes they are physical, sometimes they are just plain restful taking of time for oneself. It doesn't take much to discover that there is something useful in any break, regardless of the amount of pain involved with taking or experiencing that break. There is joy in loving the world, there is happiness in the world around us. We just need to see it, we just need to make it a personal mission to see the beauty in every single thing that we do. We are here to live and to thrive, to love and let those around us share in our love with and for each other.
Something made us this way, whether by plan or by accident, by design or by incremental changes. We have just to enjoy it. We have to see the wonder of our being, and live through that to be the better people that we want to be. We need just to enter into what is most evident in all the world, that we are fearlessly and wonderfully made.
I often get stopped by the fear that I think is inside of me, or outside of me, tackling my desires to be better, to want to shoot for the moon, but I can't, I think, I am afraid, I think, but I am none of those things. I feel them only, and I let them pass me directly by. There is joy in letting the things come and then just letting them go as easily as they came.
What do we all want? We want peace, we want structure, we want to live in a natural way that is in harmony with everything around us. Sometimes we feel it is the else or the other or the not us that is not living in the natural way, but first we should look inside ourselves and know that we are doing what we can, what we always know we are able to do, in order to live that natural way, in order to love the world around us.
What time it takes to understand this is a blink of an eye. You don't have to try, it just happens or it doesn't. The more you read and search, the more likely it will be to happen, but YOU CANNOT MAKE IT HAPPEN. It will happen when it is time. What this is that I am talking about is awakening. There is an awakening that can happen to all of us, a way for us to play and be inside what there is and there will be and there was.
And being okay with what is and was and will be is the art of happiness. Constant acceptance of the reality we are faced with can lead to constant enjoyment of the reality we are faced with, which can ultimately lead to enthusiasm toward the experience of reality that we all have
