Dark clouds hover, breezes shift, sun’s rays ease while rabbit skitters to protection. In the unexpected, tensions rise, plans change, we scurry when we thought we could rest, thinking this day would last forever. The announcement comes, our brains slow, numb in thought: to do, to think, to plan, to support, to be present, as a loved one navigates, through rocky terrain. A child’s laughter wakes us into now, not when or if, but the present, filled with love and compassion, and we realize the sun never went anywhere, was merely hidden behind a dark cloud that, true to its nature, drifts. Losses felt, not in a moment but in the movement of time, and change, and then through the laughter of children, we move, we live, we love.
“What we see, and like to see, is cure and change. But what we do not see and do not want to see is care, the participation in the pain, the solidarity in the suffering, the sharing in the experience of brokenness.”
HENRI NOWEN
“It is a serious thing to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.”
Mary Oliver
“Always hold fast to the present. Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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