Ours to keep... [3.28.17]

When we remember clearly that we are all just passing through,
It makes it a lot easier to relax our grip on the specifics of life.

None of it is ever ours to keep.
No matter how hard we might cling to it.

If you can sit with that fully there is a certain ease that opens up.
You relax as your heart teaches you to appreciate everything,
Like it is both the first and the last time you will ever see it again.

Because it is.

This moment is the only one of its kind.

Be it funny or joyous or dark or mundane and anywhere in between.
It will soon roll onto the next.  The march of time as relentless as ever. 

Better to wake up to the miracle of it all

 – the whole glorious mess –
Before – it too – is no longer

Ours to keep.