Collector of Quotes two

One of the things I love about quotes is that they can slow you down...make you really think...especially when there is a contradiction woven into the moment.

Life is too important...Wilde starts off saying.

Yes...life is very important.  Each breath is a gift of the present moment.  Every day hold mystery and magic and sometimes heartbreak or ache that we need space to process.  In the span of seconds congregating to become minutes forming hours and eventually a whole day, there is so much happening around us and within us we cannot possibly take it all in to our minds ~ let alone our lives.

Life is too important...Wilde starts off saying.

We can be uber serious and somber about it.  Grumbling and griping that this is the worst time ever.  Yet, I would suggest that living during the plague was pretty awful.  Living in fear and active persecution in Germany was really awful - especially for targeted groups.  Living right now in Syria is down right dangerous as people flee for their lives.

Me?

I have food, shelter, indoor plumbing.

That isn't to say, the problems don't matter or that life isn't without struggle for us all.  Yes, some people's struggles are more painful than any I will endure.  I will never be stopped because of the color of my skin.  People don't judge me based on who I love.  Yet, I have had moments of crying tears that won't stop and ache that feels like a hole in my soul.

Life is too important...and too often we take it so seriously believe that the joyful path (along with the paths of hope and love and peace too) are nice for Sunday morning but don't make it out in the dog-eat-dog world of Monday morning.  We lit a candle for hope back in December, but that was before the headlines this week.  We talked about the lion and lamb laying down in peace, but now we are out in the jungle thinking that was all naivete.  We sang sweetly about love, but the Christmas decorations are long put away and Valentine's Day is just made up by Hallmark.  Joy?  Please, just look at the is happening around us.

Life is too important...but when we only let the serious and somber have a say, there is never any release of joy that is found in laughter as a prayer or a good cup of coffee on a cold day or sitting close to someone you love holding hands.

What might you do this day and the rest of this week to live life differently knowing this one precious life is beautiful and sometimes broken but also way too short to be taken that seriously?

May there be more than a trace of grace for you in this exploration.

Amen ~