I do not want to
foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has
given me no control over the moment following. [Mahatma Gandhi]
It no longer amuses me to make plans. To try seeing round the
next corner. To imagine what will happen next or to manage HOW something “turns
out” in The End.
It used to. It used to consume me, focusing on all that. I
thought it was as necessary as water.
I think this is how I learned to attend to what was expected
of me. To plan everything in great detail. Set “s.m.a.r.t.” goals. And always
to have lofty pursuits.
But I have come to see that there is nothing more important
than This One Moment.
It hasn’t been easy. It’s been like learning to ride a bike.
I have had some doozy falls and skinned my knees, elbows, and pride. Yet Here I
AM. And Here is all I need BE concerning myself with anyway.
I am following Nature
without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to
flowers. [Claude Monet]
This is an exquisite example of the right sort of following.
It isn’t about following a trend or what everyone else is after. Instead it is
following where one is led.
1 comment:
I prefer to think of it as pointing myself in a general direction. Never been good at following--LOL! ;)
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