July 07, 2023 -A

Our nature knows how to express itself
and find its own way.
We do not have to tell it anything,
or direct it in any way.

We all got here/now
without intending to be here/now,
without knowing what we were doing,
or where we were going,
but here we are, 
right now.

Something not us got us here.
It was the drift and flow of our life
through the circumstances of living.

One thing led to another,
and here we are,
right now.

It does not matter where we think we are going.
It is how we get there that matters.
We get there by allowing our nature
and our innate virtues/specialties
to take the lead.

We let our interest guide us.
We follow our heart.
If something has vitality for us,
if something sparks our interest,
calls our name,
it is right to give ourselves to it
and see where it goes.

What do we do wholeheartedly?
Without having to?
Stay with that!
See where it goes.

I asked a young person what she 
thought she might do with her life.
"Well, I like to snowboard," she said.
I hope she stayed with snowboarding.
It may have been "It" for her,
or it may have lead her to what was "It."

We get passed along like that
from one thing to another 
all our life long,
following what is "It" for us all the way,
as it passes its "It-ness" on to the next thing,
and we wake up somewhere that is here/now,
wondering how we got there--
that's how.

Passed along from one thing to another.
Handed off to what is "It" now.
From one "It" to another.
Our life is lived from "It" to "It"
if we stay out of the way
by staying on the way
and following our heart's lead all the way.

It's tricky, listening to our heart,
and there is nothing to it
all at the same time.

And it beats doing what someone else
tells us to do all the time.

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