It affords opportunities to experience happenings in a small instance. So fast, it’s “in a blink of an eye.”
It offers too, larger, more enduring time frames of months, to years, to decades, to a lifetime.
All the Difference in the World
Depending on circumstance comprised of our mindset, physical and emotional health, and many other elements, the duration of each experience, whether it’s just for a split-second, or a lifetime, can make all of the difference in the world.
Amazingly too, something that transpires in a nanosecond can actually trip-up people for a lifetime.
You see, we’re not promised beautiful moments in every breath. Yet, we’re surely guaranteed both pleasure and pain throughout our time in this wondrous place.
Time is like the beauty of a thunderous wave that strikes the shore bringing us from pain to comfort and back again.
Suffering in Silence — Oh, but I Still See the Beauty!
Some suffer silently for long durations due to chronic health problems or other obstacles. Yet, they learn to transcend the lengthy discomfort by focusing on each smaller, more pleasurable happening. It’s what carries them through.
On the flip-side, others suffer through every moment unable to find the beauty that can be found in each, thus creating their own eternal misery.
With these thoughts I offer up this poem I penned this morning.
Love and light to you all.
From Pain to Comfort & Back Again
All we have
is every moment
Each unique
in its own vein
Some glorious
Painful
Big or small
Adventurous or boring
Oh, how I marvel
the endlessness of them all
Simply defined by shells
of their outer cores
From one to the next
we’re transfixed
to ensure each moment’s happy
for the latter is too much to digest
I find myself in a juxtaposition
left, right, up, down
for each moment changes
offering little semblance of sense
From pain to comfort
and back again
My physical body guarantees
that this is how it will surely be
So I move moment to moment
filled with hope
even while crippled by circumstance
that brought me here once again
I will myself to remember
that each instance is its own entity
Good or bad, happy or sad
Yes, this is true for all across the land
So when in a swirl of bliss
Don’t forget to hold tight
It’s your memory of that moment
that carries you in lows of fright
For it’s that tiny pearl of faith you see
Which affords relief
until we reach the contented place
where we’ll shimmer bright eternally
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