Your Own Magic!
There are no magic pills that can instantly solve your problems. Life is yours to be lived through, not to be skipped over.
The difficulties add just as much richness to your experience as the delights. The sadness serves to make the joy that much more magnificent.
The challenges are what give the accomplishments real value. The setbacks are what make the rewards so sweet.
The tedium and the excitement, the problems and the pleasures, the satisfaction and the disappointment all merge together into the vibrant and fulfilling symphony that is life. You would not want to miss a single minute of it all.
There is indeed a miracle here, but it's not in a magic pill. It's in the fact that you're alive and aware and able to successfully move through life's ups and downs.
The difficulties do not continue forever, yet the value of making it through them will always be yours. Instead of wishing for a magic pill, dive into the experience of creating your own special magic by the way you live your life.
-- Ralph Marston
1 comment:
Vickie,
The magic is in the magician! Every moment is magic!
Thank you for posting this.
The Apostle Paul expressed it thusly:
"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." - Romans 8:18
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;" - 2 Corinthians 4:17
"In a moment......we shall be changed." - 1 Corinthians 15:52
May you continually be living in the magic of the moment,
Scott T.
"We are so rarely in the present. Within a period of five minutes we are remembering one thing, anticipating something else, unable to focus on the only time that is ours to affect. In moments of intense exertion, physical or emotional, we are forced into the present. Part of the "high" that comes with long distance running is that there comes a point when all we can think about is the next step. There is also a "high" that comes with an emergency because we cannot think beyond what must immediately be done. But why when we are not pushed to our limits, can't our mind simply rest in the present? The present is not boring or routine. It is basically unknown and recovered only with a haze of nastalgia. When we stop skimming the surface and allow ourselves to be fully submerged in the present, we discover depths of beauty and meaning. THE PRESENT IS THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WE CAN FIND GOD."
- Carol Ochs "The Presence in the Desert"
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