Presence

The official day set aside to commemorate and celebrate those who served to assure and or defend our freedom, even many who gave their lives, has passed and it appears we are back to the “normal” routine of the “average” week day. Each person reading this post and all those who won’t has his or her unique perspective as to what is “normal” and or “average’. For most, the walk along a hallway, or down an alleyway, or up a stairway, or along the way of several city blocks to accomplish a task undertaken for a desired and possibly non-noteworthy outcome will be done in a proverbial “snap”. For some others, the very act of moving on one’s own accord will be either a memory or frank fantasy as they live in a defined dis-ability determined by any number of disease or physical consequences. Some (of us) live in the world between; that world between assumptively normal and frankly disruptive movements. The experience of having the journey from comfy recliner to scooping a morning meal for the cherished canine as being one requiring thoughtful intention to raise one’s feet beyond a shuffle to ensure a balanced delivery through the task desired. Fortunately, the more engagement the greater the promise of continued ability to engage. This unexpected “challenge” that is requiring greater intention than ever before imagined as a life task, has given me “great” pause to think not so much about what has been lost, but what has been accomplished over the years and what is yet to come. The veil of optimism is the one this participant in the journey is choosing over ones of anger, remorse, or defeat. Just like the intention often required for each step, there is an intention of thought undergirded with gratitude expressed as thankfulness for what has been and what has yet to come. I know of that which has passed but have yet to discover what is to come. Today I experience the presence of a grateful heart that seeks to thrive in the midst of each challenge and its victory!