Learning from my grandson
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I played with grandson tonight and got down on the floor, rolled around, acted really silly, and really enjoyed myself. Eckerd Tolle (THE POWER OF NOW) claims that to be able to get out of your mind, out of your ego, and quit worrying about the past and obsessing about the future, you must get into THIS moment, the Power of NOW. He believes you can find God there because you allow yourself the privilege of experiencing and enjoying the only real moment in our existence where we can actually “do something” and that is NOW.
I am not yet ready to transcend my physical form and evolve to a purely spiritual state (in case you didn’t catch that….I was being a bit humorous there) but I do understand that when I put 100% of my attention on my grandson, clear my mind, stop worrying about what when wrong today or right for that matter and stop planning and worrying about tomorrow, or what my boss, peer, neighbor, friend, enemy said or is thinking about me……….if I can completely become absorbed in the moment with my grand son, then so many amazing things happen.
Time seems to fade, slow down, become more vibrant, more exciting, rewarding, enjoyable. I become aware of so many other things like how beautiful my grand son is when he smiles and laughs. How happy I am when I am not so burdened and loaded down with my mind trying to “fix” everything in the past and future when nothing in the past and future can actually be fixed. How bright the colors are. How wonderful life is.
When I stop judging, analyzing and evaluting everything every second, life takes on a much deeper more rewarding existence and meaning. When I can push all that noise, garbage, chatter (there are a lot of words and discussions floating around in my head much of the time………..O NO!
My connection to God, being aware of my spiritual self and existence is possible for me when I am completely focused on THE NOW, The Moment at hand, fully engaged and absorbed by what is occuring in this exact moment. When that happens (and it certainly happens all too rarely), I become aware and in touch with my connection to God. And that awareness and connection is such an amazing joy.
That joy makes me want to Praise His Holy Name and realize how fortunate I am to be aware that I have a connection to my God. It is so easy for me to get so tangled up with all the hustle and bustle, turmoil, stress, anxiety, disapointments and successes of my existence that I forget who I am, forget who God is and forget the blessed connection I have to HIM.
Today, I am going to Thank HIM for giving me the Blessing of my grand son because through my grand son, I was able to deepen my relationship with my Creator today and once again connect to my God with Whom I will be spending eternity. Now that is a most inspiring thought!!
Praise to you O Lord Jesus Christ.
One Response to “Learning from my grandson”
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K Says:
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:53 pmToday’s message about what you learned from your grandson was especially meaningful and really well written. I shared it with my kids and I hope they “get it” some day too! Thanks for sharing your inspiring thoughts!
