In and Out of Time

With palms together,

Good Morning All,

In Spite of everything, life has its way of winding through the turns, finding, like water, both the low and the high places, and flowing on.

We have completely moved into our garage and two cars.  My necessaries in my car; Judy's in her car. The kids arrived yesterday afternoon just as we were putting the finishing touches on the cleaning.  I was so exhausted I could literally barely stand. We were serious parents.

A very late lunch at the Village Inn took some of the edge of, then we did what we could at the house assisting Jason and Maggie.  Olivia is just about as precious as little girls come.  I had to rest, though as I had a Temple Board meeting to attend.  

From there it was back to the condo, then to friend's Deana and Ken who offered up their spare room.  I was asleep in seconds. Today we will go over to Jason and Maggies (at our former condo) and do what we can to help.

It will be a good day, then Shabbat comes and we can go to Temple and enjoy. It is very good to rest. To step out of time, as Rabbi Abraham Heschel says.  Rabbi Heschel taught that Judaism was a religion of time, not space. An interesting point of view, wouldn't you say?   

Zen is the same.  We create our space within time, but recognize that our lives are not bound by time at all: the moment is eternal, life is eternal.  As Mircea Eliade was fond of saying its an 'eternal return'.

Every time we become conscious, every moment we are fully awake, we stand outside of history and are, ourselves eternal.

Be Well. 

BTW, I found out yesterday that the VA has decided to leave me alone.  They were threatening to cut my pension by a thousand dollars a month. That is such a relief.  My doctors and my family were having a lot of trouble helping me deal with the traumatic response symptoms to that craziness.