Take It When You Can

On my 7:00 walk this morning, in my own world, I over heard a little girl about 5 saying bye mommy, bye mommy. Over and over as a car was pulling out of the driveway I heard that little girl. That little voice broke through my meditative silence.

I am making up that this mommy was on her way to work. Again the little 5 year old repeated the line bye mommy until the car was out of site. Immediately a soft voice surrounding me said “get it while you can”.

In a flash I found myself time traveling to my past with my two little girls now 27 and 25. Remembering a similar picture when I was the mommy pulling out of the driveway. I wanted to tell the lady “get it while you can”. They grow up so fast and poof they are grown and gone. Continuing on my walk I heard the soft voice again echoing in my ear, “take it while you can” “take it while you can”.

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” Martha Graham

Back at home waiting for me were my parents, visiting for 5 weeks, my dad 91 my mom 84 and my brother a one week visitor.  What a perfect scenario, a miracle experience. My family together without their normal every day distractions from their lives, their homes, their jobs. In my home away from it all was my family waiting for me and my direction was to get it while you can.

So I made the choice to go home and take time from my work which I love dearly to rise to the occasion and “get it while I can”.This is not a judgment call or a righteous act; we have enough of that. This is a simple case of awareness in the moment. A plea to get it or take it. When you notice, when you are inspired to act, when you can “get it while you can or “take it”, then take it.

You earned it. You deserve it. When you can’t you can’t, but when you can do. The more we respond to these times in good faith, the more abundance we connect to. I have noticed that a feeling of fulfillment catapults my energy, my creative reserve, time and space. I do more in a shorter period of time. So much more comes from it.

Heaven on Earth comes from it!                

 

2 Responses to 'Take It When You Can'

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1. Your comments touched me deeply. We are in the same generation sandwiched between our elderly parents and our adult kids. I am happy to read that someone else can be so moved by something seemingly so small.

   My grandmother who passed a few years ago and my mom who is 83 and is an assisted living facility in Raleigh and I were huge “Guiding Light” fans. I grew up coming home and waiting this soap with my “Nanny” and with mom when it was a holiday. Friday was the last day of this soap which ran for 72 YEARS!! I new the day was coming. I have been crying about this for a week and can hardly talk about it. Finally on Friday I realized that I was really mourning the loss of my grandmother and my mom (not yet passed). That soap is them to me. It means love, care, kindness, compassion, and strength. It is a shock to think that one day both with be gone. I will never be ready. But I will always know I was loved.

   Thanks for sharing your thoughts and inspiring me to share mine.
   Kathy

   

   Kathy Gheen

   21 Sep 09 at 11:12 am

    

2. Thank you for your comment. You are so right. And we are still kids at heart. What an acknowledgement?

   

   Marilyn

   22 Sep 09 at 7:13 am

    

 

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