Awareness and Presence

From the time we are born our clocks starts ticking away..... the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years of our lives. If we are lucky enough to live into "old age" we begin to realize how quickly our time is getting shorter. We have had lots of time to ponder this truth over the last few weeks .... and appreciate our lives up to this day. It is sad that it takes getting older or a drama like a life threatening experience like cancer, heart attack or even the death of someone close to us for us to really get to the wake up call. It is a wake up call on many levels. The one we have been contemplating for the last few days has to do with choices. So many of the choices we make throughout our lives have to do with the path of least resistance, whether it has to do with pleasing others or a choice that seems less scary than some of the choices that are open to us. 

We have been fairly fearless about our choices throughout our lives. Many would tell you that we often "took the road less traveled". We have been blessed by making that choice. We are in the fourth quarter of our lives and we are wanting to be more conscious and contemplative about the choices we are making today about how to spend the rest of the time we have on earth. Are we making our day to day choices to please others? Are we making them to please each other? Are we making them because we are afraid and if so what are we afraid of? Our fears are about what might happen in the future. Are we missing out on blessings that might be available if we simply jump and trust that the net will appear? Each day is a precious thing.... we fear that we are not always conscious of just how precious the moments of each day are. Are we making choices that bring us joy or making choices that bring others joy?  We want to ask the question "why are we making this choice?" and find an answer in our hearts. At the end of each day our goal is to be able to say "we lived today well". None of us knows how many days we have so each one is precious. 


Your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.” – 
Deepak Chopra