We wildly stumble about in our euphoric minds, and foolishly we dance around like jesters and clowns...
The crowd cheers and laughs!
The people clap and holler!
The crowd leaves...
The laughter is gone...
We slowly stoop down and sit at the edge of our (stages) souls with dangling feet of uncertainty. Disappointment and loneliness loudly jingle like bells on our shoes once again.
What drives us, even though we don't know whether or not what we hope for will happen?
It is the unabated longing...
As foolish as it may seem to blindly dance around with hopes and dreams, it is what gives us breath! The perpetual newness hope brings is worth the momentary uncertainty and rejection.
We must live fully...
We must love deeply...
We must hope endlessly...
Life won't necessarily hand us these gifts, so we must learn how to become these life-giving gifts...
Continue to be jesters and clowns! We may bring deep, awakening life to others, because we have embraced the mystery without ever knowing when someone will bring us a deeply awakening gift!
The mystery is this: we do it all again!
We kiss the unknown and it gives us breath...
We live fully!
We love deeply!
We hope endlessly!
We kiss the mystery and it kisses us back...
(Picture is a Getty Image)