I love to sit on my front porch with my cup of coffee and just breathe. I don’t do this often enough and there is one simple reason…life. Life seems to throw things my way which interrupt my moment of peace and quiet. I think of things I should be doing other than sitting. The time tells me I should be somewhere soon. There are places to be and people to see, so the saying goes. So I let the quiet go in exchange for the fast paced life I have not only grown accustomed, but have set up for myself. I did this.
One of the reasons this happens is because I tend to value busy over rest. Too much of either can be a problem, but I always tend to lean towards the “too busy” side of things. Taking it easy doesn’t come naturally for me, it requires actual effort. While this may sound odd to some people, my fellow doers will get it. We were made for doing, or so I tell myself. That is all great until I am reminded that sometimes we have to simply be. I am told we are human “be”ings not human “doers”. I’m not comfortable with this and I’d prefer to ignore it. I’m fairly good at ignoring it until I completely run my body down and I am forced to be rather than do. Crazy how that happens.
Today, though, I wasn’t forced. No one made me sit here. I am not sick or in pain. Today, the breeze is perfect, the temperature just right, and the view from my front porch, medicinal. If I’m honest, I don’t know when it will happen again…I’m not suddenly a changed man. But just for this moment, I breathe and enjoy THIS moment. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow isn’t promised. Today I take a moment to be. Maybe you can too.
SEEING THE EXTRAORDINARY 
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