There is really only one certainty in life. Life is uncertain. We often live as if nothing is going to change, but it does. This ongoing battle between wanting things to stay the same and discovering that nothing stays the same creates something within us. This constantly changing creation is a movement, a force of nature and a guiding path.
This movement inside and outside of us is the spirit of living, of which we all take part. None of us can predict the future. This creates uncertainty on a human level, but we all learn to trust and even accept change deep within who we are. Nobody is perfect, we wake up every day with the opportunity to create something different at every moment.
When we come to expect the unexpected, we begin to trust in a wisdom greater than knowledge to guide us each day. Religious communities call this the path of God, science calls it higher consciousness, but for our purposes, let’s call this the path we were meant to follow with certainty in the face of uncertainty.
Moving toward something we cannot see creates uneasiness. This part of us is our human nature. Our human nature wants things in life to be predictable. At the same time, there are things in human existence that we are also happy to leave behind and in the past.
Have you ever noticed how the heart and mind feel as if they are being drawn by a magnetic force when we follow what we cannot see or feel? It is as if our whole body/self is being drawn into an experience. This pathless path is one that we all take every day and every moment.
Do you wonder what would happen if you lived for these moments and found joy in them? I suspect that you would find yourself living more and more in the state of anticipatory joy. This is not to say that nothing in the future will be sad, but you can begin to embrace each moment with anticipatory joy knowing that the awareness of this anticipatory joy will fill you. It will be the filling of your body with the joy of living. The joy of living fully in the soul. And, the uncertainty of the future will be met with the joyous confidence that all will be known when the time is right for us to know.
Such a trip was known to us when we were children. Do you remember lying on the ground and finding yourself breathing in the scent of soil and grass? As an adult, I suspect that you are not as clear with your senses. Let us never forget that child in us who knew how to play all day and never get tired. Our creativity was endless and filled with anticipatory joy knowing that what was going to be created next would be fun.
