One of our most deeply ingrained spiritual habits is that sense of now never quite feeling ‘good enough’.

Even something as innocuous as rushing off to the store for a carton of milk, our minds become littered. We think back to the past, wondering what else might have been done.

Or, worse yet – we find ourselves locked in that long-standing battle of that which may never, ever come.

In doing so, we lose our place in ‘now.’

We lose the rhythm of the trees; that song within the summer breeze. Or, the charming trill of the Chipping Sparrow – and the finer wonderments of wet grass beneath our feet.

All lost to that moment of worry – and our foolhardy insistence to add ‘more’ to this moment now.

When now is already ample enough – if only we open our eyes.

Pema Chodron once wrote, “Life is a good teacher *and* a good friend.”

Indeed, and our lives are continuously in motion, my loves – with gentle nudges, carefully placed, in hopes that we might ‘go beyond.’

These troubles, my darlings – I promise you, are a mere micro-moment of a much bigger ‘whole.’ That boss at work, those bills at home…nothing more than a fleeting flicker. The second hand on that cosmic ‘ticker.’

And destined to help with that ‘one bold step’—to go beyond our previous limits.

My darlings, in this way – all these troubles, they are gift. A reminder to let go, to let be – to cultivate living.

And knowing that this moment is always ‘just enough’.

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