But a witness..

Today is August 21, 2012 and I am here for which I am grateful. I have recently began my days with similar words and before whatever other meditations comes my way, I acknowledge that simple fact and give thanks for the time and place I have been given.

As I slip out of my dreams into the realities that await, I feel a surge of energy from this particular morning, a surge that has its own unique place and all I want to do is to acknowledge its presence and be grateful in my own prayer for the start a new day. I thank God, my angels and guardians for this most precious of gifts, life. A gift I have been given so lovingly and freely, yet all I have to do to fully partake and show appreciation is to be present in it and bear in soul, its conscious awareness.

As I think of all the other things I have been given, a question comes to mind almost as though I am feeling guilty for everything I am giving thanks for “For all the things you have been received, what have you been giving”

I think of this for a moment and truly enough I can name more things I have been given, more things I receive than I can name of the things I myself have given.

A bashful voice within then meekly asks, “But what can I give (As if to compare my ability to give proportionally to what I have received)”.  As I await an answer, I feel myself truly present; I hear the wind whistling outside and feel the movement of my chest as I breathe in an out….then come these words.

I have given you an energy straight from my source, that breathe that sustains life is the first instant of our constancy together. You take in what comes from me through the trees and all life and you give what you receive so that we may sustain each other.

The fact that you are alive is already the truest act of giving. It is because of you I am here, and because of me you are, simply because we are breathing. The truest act of giving is when you give yourself. 

Just as the bee and the flower live on because of each other’s presence, like them the truth of their giving is fulfilled because of the service of love they provide for each other’s sustenance.

That the flower gives her nectar and the bee should take this with the gratitude of love. As he dances from flower to flower, he too gives the flower the gift of even more life, that the next generation of these two eternal lovers may share in the joy of a timeless relationship of love.

So start from here, be conscious of this dance of giving and remember that what you give only begets itself. So even in breath, do it fully. That as you breathe you will smile in the knowledge that you always have something to give, and always have life to receive.

Remember the other gifts you have been given so that as the opportunity to give comes your way, give with joy and gratitude. 

“For in truth it is life that gives unto life – while you who deem yourself as a giver, are but a witness”