021_Why Not Accept Things Just The Way They Are?

In this weeks episodes we’re talking about accepting things just as they are as we ride the changing waves of our lives and meeting this current moment with presence.

As I’ve been with my father’s wife and my sister, I’ve been privileged to witness to my father’s volumes of writings, his correspondence, and journals of self discovery, forgivenesses and healing and love for understanding life. It’s incredible and humbling and joyous.
 
We are always us, being what we are and living from our being. But we often identify with the activities of our lives and becoming something more or acquiring something which we feel will improve our lives and forget our being; which is where is our happiness already resides. In our being peace is...

We’ve both been immersed in change and riding the waves of life as it shows up and going with the flow and noticing where we want to resist and choose to ease back into the pulse of life and be with what is, fully. Can we rest in the infinite patience of here now? Yes.
Here now is this delicious taste of our divinity aware of life happening. We are that. 

Life is happening. Not to us, but for us. What’s happening is for us to dance with the pulse of life itself. Here we feel our inner-connectedness. As we deepen to the awareness of our being behind and within the activities of life happening, we recognize our pulse is the same pulse of all life happening right here, right now, for all of us. 

When we resist, we zero our focus to what’s not happening and it feels icky, we think something needs to change outside of ourselves so we can be happy or at peace. We have placed an agenda on life happening ‘our’ way. That ‘our way’ gets in the way of ‘the’ way. 

The icky feeling is the zen-bell reminding us we’ve dissociated from our true being. We can always pause and breathe and let go of ‘our’ agenda and see what really is - in the immediacy, of what’s actually happening. We soften and feel the pulse of life, that is our being, and it opens us to accepting what is, as it is. 

Can we let love show us our next step or to wait and not step till the impulse is full and joyous? This is the yummy dance with life just as it is.