This Current Breath

This current breath:

finding myself present — even to what doesn’t seem to be, accepting what’s unseen but current, like air in it’s becoming of the breath. It’s simply knowing that life is happening, constant, and now. There’s no need to get bogged down in every detail. It’s the faith of this current breath, and the infinite things that make this moment possible.

this moment is all I really know, and this is to say that I only know of mystery — it’s an awareness of my limit to be anywhere else but here, present to what’s happening but not privy as to why, or what may happen next. I am granted the favor of existing and this is always just a momentary grace, aware now, nothing more to be promised.

to be present is enough.

yet this isn’t a call to mindful, to note details of the moment — it’s accepting the current breath, life, and being aware that there is nowhere else to be but here, already fully present. Whether mindful or not life continues happening. I have no fear of missing out, that some important detail will be lost to my attention. I am present by virtue of being aware, that momentary grace given, and nothing escapes this presence, everything happens here, and always now.

it’s that simple.

this current breath means I’m alive, connected to air and it’s infinite reach — to find myself present includes the flight of every bird, each tree branch extended to the sky, all things belonging to the hold of air. There’s no effort to this connection. It just is, it’s the ease of being present, of being aware. It’s the grace already given.

enjoy.

~
Peace,
Eric