Now

Even when you are short on time, it is super important to take moments to pause and just appreciate the life you have. You may be dead in twenty seconds, and then all your striving and planning will be for nothing. It seems hopeless or at least frightening, but the solution of the ancients was to do each action as a prayer, as an offering to God. Not just the seemingly important stuff like serving the sick or downtrodden. But even just sweeping the house clean. Making lunch. Ultimately it is all God, so there is no reason to parcel off certain sections and call them holy and the rest secular. God is in every particle, and can be experienced in exquisite beauty at any time. I may take practice, but the possibility is there, so why not at least attempt or practice taking advantage of that fact. No act is small really. It is only minds that are small, and in so being, make the act seem small. Or large, if the mind is that way instead.

This is important for me to remember, as I also strive to be more efficient, to get more done. Even that needs to be done ultimately as an offering to the most high imminent in all, more than as a means to an end. It will work, as a means to an end, but it will be a much richer life, if done in the mindset of journey, rather than destination. As offering, rather than clutching.