This morning, as I gaze across the expanse of sun drenched blue sky and magnificently aqua-colored body of water that is my current view, I am assured, beyond a doubt, that what we think we understand of our lives and the world we live in, is but a fraction of what they contain in their enormity.
Beyond this earthly body and what we see with our conditioned eyesight, lies more than what we can imagine.
Many times, I have sat in silence, eye closed in meditation, focusing on nothing but the sound of my breath as it fills and then leaves my lungs, and encountered a deep and eternal connection to something ethereal, that I cannot begin to describe in words.
I trust my soul, my intuition and my gut instincts on this, the same way I trusted the mysteries of spiritual teachings introduced to me as a young child by my maternal and paternal grandmothers.
Despite the difficult and horrifying events that have become part of our every day landscape, I know the truth of what is taking place with this agenda, and therefore, I am free.
And, I am free to live every day more fully, more mindfully, with more meaning and more intention, since tomorrow is never promised, as we have all painfully learned these past two years. That, is the greatest of gifts, in this brief moment in history.