Keeping Our Center ~ Day 126

Robert Fulghum, in his book “From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives” writes, “Rituals do not always involve words, occasions, officials, or an audience. Rituals are often silent, solitary, and self-contained. The most powerful rites of passage are reflective – when you look back on your life again and again, paying attention to the rivers you have crossed and the gates you have opened and walked on through, the thresholds you have passed over.”

Do you ever do this? Sit and mull about the past… the path you’ve taken, the choices you’ve made, the synchronicities that brought seemingly impossible things together, the times you’d like to edit out and the perfect moments or days you wish you could revisit? I do, but I never really thought about it as a ritual before.

In his book, Fulghum talks about occasionally taking a lawn chair to the grave site that he has purchased for himself, and sitting for a while to pay his respects to his final resting place. He claims it always serves to bring perspective to bouts of anger, frustration, irritation and life itself.

Perhaps that’s what looking our life over can do for us, it’s a sacred pause to remember that we’ve been through a lot of tough times and survived, we’re not perfect ourselves, but perfection is impossible, we’ve learned and grown in wisdom (I hope), and, at the end of the day, it’s better to be above ground than below ground.

No matter how much time we have left, or how little, we can still give all of ourselves to making each precious moment count.

Love & Light!

Kaye