The local grocery store offers a fun selection of cheese from France, Spain, and Switzerland. I am struck by the way simple labels take me to great memories that stand out as Life’s gifts. Gruyere is a fortress village that has been car-free for decades. In addition to producing a wonderful and unique cheese, my memory is framed by a simple dish of fresh raspberries and cream. In the stunning, I still remember the flavours forty years later, I see my wooden spoon standing vertically in the wonderfully thick cream. The afternoon has stayed with me, a reminder of how “God deals out joy in the present, the now. It’s useless to brood over how long we might live.” (Ecclesiastes 5.20)
Today is my best day. In addition to being grateful, I am challenged by the opportunities that it will bring. I hear my calling as a reminder of what I can do with each moment. I understand my experience and the awareness Life gifts to me in what I can bring to each moment. With the insight my baggage offers, the invitation is simple and direct. Today and the moments within it offer me a chance to live as fully and completely as I can. I get to taste what life offers. I get to launch and cry in the events that will unfold. I get to care and make a difference. All because today is my best day.
Today is all that matters. Everything before today is in place as a resource for me to use with the time I have now. The good and the bad, the celebrations as well as the times of morning, are lessons and insights that inform and gift me with wisdom. Whatever will come, everything up to the time of my passing, is beyond my reach. Now is the time. This moment is life. In seizing the moment, I find myself out in the open, celebrating the opportunities to collaborate with Divinity to make the world a better place.
Gruyere is a past highlight. I find life today.
