Bending Time & Space

Thank You Mr. Einstein

How we spend our days is, of course

how we live our lives.

— Annie Dillard

In our crazy busy lives
how do we make space for what truly matters?
How do we find time to nurture ourselves?
How do we stop and become so quiet
that we hear the voice within?

When people we love live far away
How do we stay connected?
When external tasks keep us apart,
In brief times together,
how do we weave a common thread?

Go deep.
Bend time.
Span space.

We have uncommon dimensions
beyond height and width.
We have the depths of the heart
and the mercurial life of the spirit
that travels beyond space and time.

We have EST, Central Time, Mountain Time,
past, present, future . . .
And we have Sacred Time —
Presence
Now.

We experience Impermanence —
witness our own slow decline,

Yet we live forever in the eternity of Love
and virtue of good Deeds.

We live our values.
We make time for what matters.

Some sleep before they die.
May we live now with intention
courageous and awakened
to greet each new day as a blessing
and respond with grateful heart.

Ann West, 2009