Monday 22 July 2013

Retreat again and again

In the grounds of Waterperry is a tiny Church, over 1000 years old with wooden box pews.  During Art in Action, which buzzes with people, pancakes and pzazz, Discantvs Choir joins a reader and they provide a period of music and poetry with a reflective theme for people to sink into.  If it wasn't that the pew seats were made for medieval bottoms which must be much smaller than the current variety, I would have stayed there ALL day.
There was a 70th and 80th birthday to celebrate.  The owners of the birthdays were particularly dear and close to me and it made me realise that time goes rattling past, decades seem like weeks and lives together which were to have been forever, dissolve back into singularity.  And you can't stop them.  You think that you are in control of time but time is going to move every bit of your human person along just where it wants you to go.  Your only point of control is .... to know that this is a fact, bring a bit of meditation into your life and then enjoy the time, don't fight it.

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