the rollercoaster ride of life…
why is it sometimes so difficult to just enjoy the ride? why do we or at least I take myself and life so seriously sometimes? after all as Bill Hicks so aptly says, “it’s just a ride”. and quite the ride it is! no matter how wise I’ve gotten, how experienced, how skilled, how many tools I’ve got in my tool belt…there’s always something that gets me. it truly is fascinating. at times a little disheartening and discouraging but in the end I find my way back to centre or at least humour and remember not to take it so seriously and just laugh and enjoy it. there is so much to be upset about and equally there is as much to be ecstatic about. I feel the key is to allow both and not get too caught up in either. all I truly do know is that when I let go of trying to figure it out and open to the wonder of life, magic does truly happen. yesterday one of our lessons was on radical wonder and awe, it got interrupted by the rain, which rarely if ever happens in this part of Israel and not long after we were blessed with the vision of a double rainbow! kind of puts things in perspective. it all truly is a miracle. as Albert Einstein one said, “there are two ways to live life, one is as if nothing is a miracle and the other is as if everything is.”
try it on, see what shift it makes in your day. perhaps a sharp curve to the right or a double loop twist…I figure we always get what we need. ENJOY!
