The Sun Arises…Faithfully

As I sit here at my computer, the sun is blasting through the living room lighting up everything….dust included!  My thoughts turn to the very fact that the sun is arising; faithfully every day it arises, whether or not we can see it.  Toronto has yet to become totally covered in smog and pollution, so I do see it getting out of bed (both the sun and me) every morning.  I also think, I take it for-granted that it will wake me and greet me each day.

I then turn to the very fact that I also take for-granted that I too will be given the gift to “arise” every day with an opportunity to greet the day and all that it holds.  I have been given another 24 hours (I am assuming) of linear time in which to live this human life.  The sun knows its purposes for today; to shine.  As for me, I am uncertain what my “purpose” is for today and I ponder what the day will unfold, and will I be “awake” with “eyes to see and ears to hear” the world around me, or will I be lost inside in some futuristic projection of what tomorrow may hold or what went right or wrong yesterday?  Thus internally engrossed, I shall surely miss what will unfold before me today – whether or not I choose to see and participate, well that is my choice.  But, in order to participate in life today, I have to live in an awareness of the very moment I am in, including this very moment as I hear the sound of my nails (need to be filed down) clipping on the keys of my keyboard; see the warmth of the sun out of my peripheral vision, hear the clacking of the subway train taking thousands of people to their work places (29 floors below), hear the cars driving by (no horns blowing yet); feel the leather of the chair upon which I sit, smell the smells of the dawn, the aroma of the coffee brewed an hour ago.  Is this the kind of awareness I will bring to the forefront as my feet hit the pavement….scurrying about for another fun filled (or not so….) day?

Admittedly, I am afraid if I run true to form, when today ends, I likely will not recall 1/1ooth of the movie that played out before me today – and damn, I payed good money to see the movie of today; my life, my whole life if today were my last 24 hours of living this human existence, I will have missed most of my life!

So, Mr. Sun, I seek your secret of awareness and fullness and living my purpose today.  Your purpose, today and everyday, is to shine.  Is that, perhaps, my purpose?

May I live today, faithfully….to life’s purpose and may you live today, faithfully to your purpose.  Perhaps it shall be just to smile at someone as I stand waiting for the eternally slow elevators to arrive; or glance out my window as I am stopped at a traffic light and smile with my eyes?

If I am “awake” today, my instincts will naturally react as they should to whatever unfolds before me today.  Living, truly living, should come as naturally as breathing.  It’s not some great and majestic headline kind of thing.  It’s all of the small and wonderful things that make up the grand scheme of life.

After all, Yahshua was but one man….and we’re still talking about his tiny steps; how he sat down and ate with folks, how he went for a stroll in the park (okay, hillsides) with the locals.  Then of course there are those things we term “miracles” that for me are not miracles but should be and could be every day occurrences; as natural as breathing.  I think of “physician, heal thyself” when I think of illness.  Can we truly heal ourselves?  The answer is yes, if we believe Yahshua’s promises to his disciples that, “You will do these things and even greater.”

Let today be a miracle – for you see it is a miracle – I have today!

I am sharing Mr. Sun who greeted me this morning; you gotta smile when you gaze upon such gleeful brightness.  It just lights up a smile in me – I hope it does in you!