Some days, the simplest tasks

seem weighty and endless:

make the bed, tuck in the sheet,

make the coffee, stir, and drink,

find the bills, pay the bills.

Some weeks, the days blur:

get on the plane, get off the plane,

get in the car, get out of the car,

sign in here, sign out there.

Then, I got your email saying:

Isn’t this all a blessing?

We get to make the bed

and tuck in the sheet.

We get to make the coffee

and stir it and drink.

I emailed you back:

What’s the difference?

You called me up and said:

“Oh my friend, if we can just

keep falling down and getting up,

it all becomes a dance.”

~Mark Nepo

this amazing way of being….

inquiry for today~ how we forget….

what you cannot know…..

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth

plants something in his soul.

~Thomas Merton