Step Forward, Leading Up (March 2024 Newsletter)
With every passing season we revisit the thought, “Am I headed in the right direction?” At times we are uplifted by our choices and direction, and at other times we can’t believe that we just meandered off the path we were on and impulsively went where the wayward crowd was headed. No matter what, it is all a part of the life experience. This is important! Every step we take is leading somewhere. If performed in good faith, it is onwards. The important thing is, what did I gain today that I did not have yesterday? Move on then, step by step in complete honesty. "For the Gods see everywhere."
It's easy to be distracted and sometimes difficult to return to living in the present moment untouched by the things that distract us. Stay in the moment. It will not return.
The Builders by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.
Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.
For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials filled;
Our to-days and yesterdays
Are the blocks with which we build.
Truly shape and fashion these;
Leave no yawning gaps between;
Think not, because no man sees,
Such things will remain unseen.
In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the Gods see everywhere.
Let us do our work as well,
Both the unseen and the seen;
Make the house, where Gods may dwell,
Beautiful, entire, and clean.
Else our lives are incomplete,
Standing in these walls of Time,
Broken stairways, where the feet
Stumble as they seek to climb.
Build to-day, then, strong and sure,
With a firm and ample base;
And ascending and secure
Shall to-morrow find its place.
Thus alone can we attain
To those turrets, where the eye
Sees the world as one vast plain,
And one boundless reach of sky.
Sincerely and in peace,
sipra
Photo Credit: Sipra Pimputkar