keep going

" I tell you to keep going, not because

it's easy.

Not because it doesn't hurt. I tell you

to keep going ... because there is no

other way.

To stop is to die. Life is motion .

In growth. In change.

Life is in seeking and finding. Life is

in redemption.

Each moment is a new birth.

A new chance to come back,

.... to get it right.

A new chance to make it better. "

- Yasmin Mogahed

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Meister Eckhart once said

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

Really!?

Do I have to start over each day?

Isn’t once a year enough?

Really!

Alas,

We must always be dying and being born

We must always be letting go, and starting fresh

Not every day

But every moment

Every moment we must die

But every moment we are reborn

Every moment involves another choice

Another chance

It is not easy, always

To choose life

To choose to keep going

To choose newness

It is amazing how much stuff sticks to us

Like hay and branches and dog hair

On my beloved fleece coats and pants

We drag stuff along with with

Unnoticed

And unwanted

We need constantly

To de-fuse

With things unseemly

Unhelpful

Thoughts

Beliefs

Habits

Actions

And not everything we encounter

As we take our next step is good

Or helpful

The way between Jersualem and Jerich

The way between birth and death

Is full of dangers

And there are times

Oh!  There are times

But then there is resurrection

The Sacred One is one who raises us up

We are not old

Ever

We are always new creations

Ever being made new

Ever being held, lifted, comforted, empowered

By the Sacred within us

As we sometimes run

Sometimes walk

Sometimes stumble

Sometimes crawl

Along our way

God reinvents us moment by moment

Gives us opportunities

To be reborn

To grab hold of what is new

And start again

With the Sacred there is always another chance

Another opportunity for healing

Reconciliation

Growth

Forgiveness

Generosity

Today is today

And this day I will notice my thoughts

And accept the way I feel

And choose to do what I care about

The next moment calls

And I will choose to do one thing that moves me toward what I value

Love, caring, compassion, generosity

And then that done, I will choose the next right thing

And so Sacred and I will stumble forward

Toward what is next

(and there is always a next)