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“believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the
daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news
headlines but on the flowers growing in your own garden, the children
growing in your own home, this way of living has the potential to open
up the heavens, to yield a glittering handful of diamonds where a
second ago there was coal. This way of living and noticing and building
and crafting can crack through the movie sets and soundtracks that
keep us waiting for our own life stories to begin, and set us free to
observe the lives we have been creating all along without ever
realizing it.
"I don’t want to wait anymore. I choose to believe that there is
nothing more sacred or profound than this day. I choose to believe that
there may be a thousand big moments embedded in this day, waiting to
be discovered like tiny shards of gold. The big moments are the daily,
tiny moments of courage and forgiveness and hope that we grab on to and
extend to one another. That’s the drama of life, swirling all around
us, and generally I don’t even see it, because I’m too busy waiting to
become whatever it is I think I am about to become. The big moments are
in every hour, every conversation, every meal, every meeting.
"The Heisman Trophy winner knows this. He knows that his big moment
was not when they gave him the trophy. It was the thousand times he
went to practice instead of going back to bed. It was the miles run on
rainy days, the healthy meals when a burger sounded like heaven. That
big moment represented and rested on a foundation of moments that had
come before it.
"I believe that if we cultivate a true attention, a deep ability to
see what has been there all along, we will find worlds within us and
between us, dreams and stories and memories spilling over. The nuances
and shades and secrets and intimations of love and friendship and
marriage an parenting are action-packed and multicolored, if you know
where to look.
"Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you’ve been
waiting for is happening all around you. The scene unfolding right
outside your window is worth more than the most beautiful painting, and
the crackers and peanut butter that you’re having for lunch on the
coffee table are as profound, in their own way, as the Last Supper.
This is it. This is life in all its glory, swirling and unfolding
around us, disguised as pedantic, pedestrian non-events. But pull of
the mask and you will find your life, waiting to be made, chosen,
woven, crafted.
"Your life, right now, today, is exploding with energy and power and
detail and dimension, better than the best movie you have ever seen.
You and your family and your friends and your house and your dinner
table and your garage have all the makings of a life of epic
proportions, a story for the ages. Because they all are. Every life is.
"You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams
worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and
beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true
culmination of super and natural.
"You are more than dust and bones.
"You are spirit and power and image of God.
"And you have been given Today.”
― Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
This quote has just waken me up that my Big Moment happens today.
Everytime I ponder on things that I want to have, I lose the moment life
is offering me -- the experiences, the new things, the mementos that I
should be enjoying. For the past few months, I always tell my mother
that I already wanted to graduate and get a job. I feel like everyday is
consist of not 24 hours but 48 hours because too many things are
happening yet I don't get the chance to cherish it andd indulge myself
in it because I am waiting for my big moment. I have always wanted to be
the adventurer, going to different places just to experience new
things. I have always wanted to live the "life" I want to have. But now,
I guess I'm wasting the life I really have waiting for the life I,
maybe, will never have.
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But for now, I'll enjoy my life because my big moment happens today. :)
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