The Gift

Keeping Death foremost in my mind is key. We all put ourselves at risk of death every moment of our lives, especially when we venture out of our homes. Many of us who have put our lives at risk either knowingly, willingly or unknowing and unwillingly, have had close encounters with death. Somehow for reasons that are not readily apparent, we survive. Some (many) do not survive, but some of us have.

The lessons taken from survival are too often dismissed, not understood and forgotten as we slip back into the daily routines that perpetuate fear and anxiety, or, at best, boredom. What we don't realize is that it is a great opportunity having survived these encounters with death. Opportunities to see and understand that, for all intents and purposes, each day that we awake is an extra day in these human forms, because odds were that we should have met with our demise - so each day is a true gift.

When we live with this realization we begin to understand that we have nothing to lose and nothing to fear because, in essence, we are already dead. Living in fear or experiencing deep debilitating anxiety is for naught - it is a waste of the gift we are given each day that we draw breath.

We, who have already died, must live every moment as if it were our last. Only then are we living in and expressing our appreciation for and of the gift