Treasures and Torments

For a moment, I was tormented.

Tormented by past pains. Tormented by daily desires. Tormented by dreams of my youth yet fulfilled.

Then I ponder deeper, and reflect.

I embrace my torment, console it, nurture it, feel it lose its strength and succumb to love, and I come to these realizations:

The wounds left scars, but they also blessed me with the gift of healing.

The daily desires fuel my daily dreams.

And I am young and Life is fun, and there are so many days and weeks and years and decades to capture and embrace and enjoy them all!

Back in the Now, fully engaged in this current moment between the future and the past, I realize it is I - and only I - who has the power and potential to create a world of my own choosing.

Uplifted, I walk out into the dark night. My head turns upward, my eyes glance outward at the near full moon.

And I notice, beyond the lunar spectacle, a bright distant star suddenly twinkle as if it had blinked.

My heart smiles back.

The pain of my yesterdays is far outweighed by the pleasures of my todays and tomorrows.

As Sandy the Flower Man would say, "Oh my! Ain't Life grand!?!"...