Present

January 2017

We repeatedly welcome new lives into our hearts, without so much as a whisper of a warning as to the inevitable chaos and wonder that will ensue. We fall into our memories of the past, before all the heartache and stress that we we now call daily life. We look to the future, when our dreams will finally have come true, and we’ll be living the lives we’ve always wanted. But so rarely do we remind ourselves to examine our lives in the present — minute by minute, day by day. To sit with ourselves in this moment and witness the beauty of our struggles. To remember that there is so much strength to be found in pain, there is so much perspective to be gained through loss, and there is so much love to be found in this world, if we only care enough to look.