Become who you are

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living”

 - Joseph Campbell

I keep thinking that life cannot get any better, but then it does. Jenean and I returned to Utah, only to be amazed all over again. I sat humbly before the mesmerizing hoodoos of Bryce Amphitheater, only to then wander through the dreamscape of Fairyland Canyon. I gazed at the universe surrounding me through the deep dark skies, only to witness our sun returning once again to bring forth the oranges, purples, and whites of the desert. All was right with the world. All was filled with Light. Jenean and I followed the open road home, feeling overwhelmingly happy.

But then we went to a concert - Of Monsters and Men. The band put on a great performance. Add to that a musical style made to be played live. Add to that a great audience. Now we have a great show. But there was something more, something special that cannot be crafted or attempted or pursued. It was a time and place, a moment, of becoming. A moment where the people on stage were doing what they should be doing, and I too was where I should be. It was a moment, an experience, when forces coalesce, when lives cross paths, when the threads of history weave, when people live into the Light, and creation unfolds. It is hard to put words to these experiences, but it feels like anything is possible, that everything has the potential for good, and that all is interconnected. 

And I think that this process is what really is behind my perception of life getting better and better. It is not necessarily about relationships, or things, or experiences, as my life has been graced with love and opportunity in all of its years. Rather, it is a growing mindfulness of the path before me, an increased ability to be who I am to be, an intersection of forces and threads and experiences. I am becoming more and more inspired - and more and more humbled - to live into the Light that surrounds me completely.