We tend to view life as a few big, notable things surrounded by a bunch of tiny, small things. It's as if we view our lives, paradoxically, like a history book in the making: events surrounded by "everyday" things that really are nothing but the stuff that connects those events together.
However, reality is really nothing like a history book. Reality is deep, deep...and deeper still.
There are no small events in reality. Each event is empowered with the potential to be done with aware grace and presence, or disregarded as just a means to an end; just something "in between" other, more important things.
Each moment of your life (and yes, there's really only one moment, but let's pretend that there are a bunch :) is an invitation for you to live. It's a knock on your door, a hand reaching down, a lamp or candle that is waiting to be lit. YOU have to turn on that light; take that hand; answer that door. After all, it's just an invitation; it's just potential; it becomes activated -- it becomes real -- when you engage the present moment and awaken "into" it.
Remember, you cannot lose the present moment; you can only be lost to the present moment. The present moment is waiting for you -- much, much, much, much more patiently, lovingly and loyally than anyone else in your reality could possibly be -- to wake up.
You don't have to do anything; just wake up into the present.
Wake up into the small, seemingly ordinary moments of your life -- and discover that there are no ordinary moments at all, and indeed, there are no "small things" possible in a universe as infinitely mysterious and incomprehensibly vast as this.
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