You Are in Wisdom Training

Why are you here?  What is this perfect day really for?  What discoveries will you make?  Who will teach you something?  What is the real purpose here, of your life, of living, of this spectacular day?  What do you really want to do with your life?

Isn’t it about gaining wisdom, gaining perspective, learning to live in bliss, in states of gyrating ecstasy…where you notice and see the things you are looking for?  Where you get an insight?  Where you learn to not overreact, unless you just happened to get dumbfounded in the bewilderment, stuck in the awe, lost in the magic, left out to dry on a sunny day?

            Believe that this very day, these strung together moments, are all lessons, perspicacious moments, teaching material, textbook perfect living, in harmony, with zeal and passion and truth surging through your veins, with all the stops out, all the reservations blowing in the wind, with poetry, song, didactic pluralism confusing the hourglass…where you get another chance.  You grow by leaps and bounds.  You come back to the center, to the inner world of monks and scrolls, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao te Ching on the wings of angels, who, by the way, live above 9,000 feet, in the winter trees, next to the blue birds of happiness, on a wire, hiding out in the aspiring dawn.

            What if today you embraced your calling, to gather wisdom, to live this wisdom, to add not just a modicum of peace to all that you do, but a wheelbarrow full, a run on sentence with hyperbole, with symmetry and scimitars and shooting stars, where life is a dream and you are dreaming it, where the mystery ensues, where the sunrise and the sunset have all the enchantment…and in between are soft, warm winds and off sunlight and cloud shadows hiding the sorrow, the travesties and your merely perceived hardships.

            You, this day, this venerable truth and beauty that is comingling, this spectacular happenstance where the northern lights, the St. Elmo’s Fire and the quasars all align, bid for top billing, as you,  in your hour of perfection, sit, compelled to contemplate, to admire, to steep in the mystical moments, to live out this day with song in your heart, with inspired wisdom growing like a story in your spirit, as you realize, it really is, this everything, this in-and- out, behind and outside the clouds, this low flying and under the radar and over the top living—all of it is “wisdom training,” here on earth,  where you are a celebrity in your own life, where what you love, loves you too.

            Be here on earth: Your scintillating spiritual boot camp.

The test will come later.