Mayflower
I remember the ship that sailed across the mysterious seas
from England to find America—which really had never been lost. The idea that the
world was flat and, if one sailed far enough, there was a chance of slipping
off of the end of the earth to a tragic death must have been incredibly
frightening to the captain and those passengers aboard the Mayflower.
But my thought today was less about the history of finding
America and more about why England named their ship The Mayflower. As I sit by
my living room window and gaze at the May flowers blooming, it occurred to me
that the possibility of naming a ship after the idea of new spring beginnings
is a great name, especially since the ship’s intention was to find new land and
ended up creating a new thought process about the shape of the earth.
You see, every day we have a chance to look at the metaphors
of life flowering all around us. Each of these small but telling signs has the
possibility of leading us to unfathomable change in our lives. Something as
simple as flowers blooming, birds mating, and a plant that died through no
fault of your own can hold great divine mysteries. Every day, I look at all of
these seemingly useless thoughts and try to make spiritual sense of them. This
is my way of making every moment of life count.
When I live in the moment or in the now, I experience the
greater privilege of the life that Spirit has afforded me on this earth. I
recognize that I am spirit housed in a human body. I live by looking through
the windows of my eyes and hearing through the speakers of my ears, and experience
the sensual nature of life through the constant sensations of touch and feeling
in my heart and in every part of my body—skin, organs, stomach, tongue, lips…
The song “If I Were,” says, “If I were a kiss, I’d seal
every promise. Then follow the softest curves that fall from your lips. And I
would live on forever, if only a moment. If I were a kiss. If I were.”
I love those lyrics, because they speak of living in the
moment. We could simply kiss to move forward into sexuality. Or we could linger
on the touch of a loved one’s lips, the shape and the feeling of his lips
engaging ours, searching for sensations instead of expectations. From that
small difference in experiencing life, our joy is enhanced exponentially.
To live in the present is the greatest gift from God. As
some have often said, that is why we call the now, present, because it is a
present or gift from God.
And so it is!
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Bo Sebastian is a Hypnotherapist and Life & Health
Coach, available for private sessions to QUIT SMOKING, Lose Weight, New
Lap-Band Hypnosis for Weight Loss, CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR LIFE! at
615-400-2334 or www.bosebastian.com.
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