Friday, 09 January 2009

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  Dear Jeremy,
  
  I am not writing to tell you what is to come, but what has been.
  
  As you read these words you are beginning the new year, just as I am. Each of us stand upon a cliff of unknown miracles and adventures. Each ending a chapter and beginning another. Each struggling for one more glimpse of beauty. One more moment of peace. Now, while these circumstances may be shared, I assure you our conditions are not. You see, you are beginning the year 2008, while I have begun 2009.
  
  I am not going to explain what you will see, nor will I describe to you what you will experience. If the contents of these words were to that effect, you might as well be dead already. No, I am writing to inspire the first step. To raise your eyes so that you might not miss what I have seen. To slow your hands so that you might feel. Jeremy, these words were written so that these moments might flourish. They were written so that you might live.
  
  Life can only be understood looking backward.  It must be lived forward.
  
  You are troubled. I know this because I was there. You are anxious and confused. Frustrated and trapped. The fog, the chill never seem to release. The ache is deep. I know. But while these conditions surround you, do not despair. While these burdens break you, do not keep them. Release your grasp. Let go.
  
  Paul said to Peter, "You've got to rock yourself a little harder;
  Pretend the dove from above is a dragon and your feet are on fire."
  
  You're too close to see it. This is no curse, but the blessed catalyst; your inciting incident. May restlessness be your heavenly push. May you never settle for comfort. Without change, life would not be possible. God knows - it takes more than the rise and fall of a chest for a man to live his life. Food and shelter are components of survival. Loneliness reveals a deeper void. Joy illuminates a desire for more - not of possessions but that which can be shared, created and experienced. It resonates deeper than the bones and beats within the cavernous chest. The physics are the medium for us to not understand, but know these truths - through our senses. The underlying current is glimpsed through the changing elements. On the grandest and most minute scales, change reveals, asks and demonstrates the why of living. It begs the person to continue. We've only begun.
  
  Not all who wander are lost.
  
  Our time is short, so I will cherish your remaining breaths. May you find this life to be simpler and far more exciting than we have allowed it. May you not love out of fear, but of humility. May you tirelessly question, explore and experience. May you let go. May you fully take in the most sacred of sensations. May you dare to take the chance. Then, may we reach the point we were intended to exist - the simple act of being. The uninhibited worship - a natural reaction to the spark, the breath of life.
  
  Now go. Breathe.
  
  He'll take care of the rest.
  
  Jeremy
  
  
  

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