Friday, April 25, 2008

Once in awhile...

Once in awhile...

I see something in my life that makes me just stop...and appreciate what I have...and what it means to me.

Once in awhile...I am impressed...with someone that crosses my attention span...that speaks to me in a way that stays with me.

Once in awhile...I hear the music playing...without even having to listen...and it takes my breath away because I know...I know...it is from God.

Once in awhile...I catch the light in my wife's eyes...and see how she glows from the inside with a beauty that I can not even imagine.

Once in awhile...I can create the art that is actually in my heart...and when I can...I hear thunder and I see past the light.

Once in awhile...I am briefly aware and in a moment...totally...completely...submerged and overwhelmingly present...so that I can see...the beauty that truly is...and I am exposed to.

Once in awhile...I shut up long enough to hear the small still voice inside my heart...where I hear God speak to my spirit...and love me.

Once in awhile...I look at my children...and I love them with my sight, with my attention...with my mind...with my heart and spirit...with my voice...and with my life.

Once in awhile...I search who I am to find that I can never be who I want to be...but I always return...to who God made me to be.

Once in awhile...I hear meaning...and wisdom...and once in awhile I am humble enough to recognize it...accept it...and let it ring in me.

Once in awhile...I remember how fragile my life is...and I remember how close to the edge I stand daily...and I hope...and I pray.

Once in awhile...I get to love and be loved...and I appreciate each moment...and remember what my life is about...and I fight to be healthy.

Once in awhile I blog...and write...and create...and cringe...because I never really believe I deserve the things I've been given.

Once in awhile I see a sunset that takes my breath away...because I know my dad is up there...painting those sky's for God...and welcoming me back home.

Once in awhile I hear truth...and it rings in my heart like a bell...and I feel the hair on my flesh raise...because I know God has just sent me a message.

Once in awhile...I feel...and I feel colors...and I feel thoughts...and I feel freedom...and I feel trapped...and I feel stupid...and I feel humble...and I feel...which allows me...to be...healthy.

Once in awhile...I find it hard to fight...and I find my weakness...which angers me...and I don't like what that creates in me.

Once in awhile...I get gas...terrible gas...painful gas...and it has to be passed...which makes me...ultimately....very human.

Once in awhile...I remember how much I love to laugh...how much laughter brings joy to my life...and how much I can relate to other human beings by finding the funny.

Once in awhile...I find myself.

Once in awhile...I am.

2 comments:

Gina said...

OK, ya had me onboard til the GAS..................just sayin?

Lub??

Anonymous said...

All to often... Someone, anyone, you, them or they make a statement or implied statement, such as; "You are far more intelligent and wise then the average person because you've proven achievement in academic and achievement in work experience. You accept your convening with the Supreme Being and are fully aware of the Supreme Beings communications with you. You usefully participate and employ your keenly developed abilities in all available social, political, artistic and family oriented areas of life."

All to often…Your own accounting for personal history stands as the simple fact that you have found place in the varying positions and institutions because of your intellectual capacity and are the kind of individual worthy of notoriety.

All to often… You can assuredly process the mental, emotional and spiritual facets with through the distillation filter of your experiences, knowledge, wisdom, life as a whole and existence into a refined distilment for positive achievements that will benefit yourself and possible the whole of humanity. And best mark for distinction things to ignore. Better than I could!

All too often… I have proven myself to be an average person with unproven academic achievement. I deny or at least refuse to claim factual proof or a belief in the existence of a Supreme Being. I regard my inabilities, incapacities and shortcomings as simply that...and not missing lenses to a "mental-eye" through which the mystic design of the universe reveals itself to the initiated. Or find myself subject to the "Laws of Attraction". And any abilities that I may possess have no qualities worthy of mention, nor none near the level of notoriety you seek.

All too often… there is reasonable, logical and true evidence that you are far more complete. And if any means measurable or existing indicators would suggest otherwise simply avoid factoring some variable that would account for an offset.

All too often… as the previous opening statements prove, you are a far more wise, intelligent and sensible a human being. Who is contributing more to the collective good then I have or am capable.

All too often… When I and you, have had both the opportunity to consider the conclusion above and reread the following sentence.

"Once in awhile...I get gas...terrible gas...painful gas...and it has to be passed...which makes me...ultimately....very human."
The aforementioned dichotomy perhaps reveals a practiced flaw of the logic and reason being placed at hand. To say that; flatulence is a characteristic markedly human.

But this happens… All too often