Here and now

I don't so often sense it in the conscious areas of my mind,
Yet my past has affected the alignment of every molecule in my body
And that subject is so complicated, 
I can only approach it in my dreams and in my subconscious. 

The simple fact is that I live with all of the consequences 
of what has taken place before, now. 

It's my alignment now that can come under the influence 
of something larger than myself. 
A force that can change the alignment here, 
regardless of what has already happened. 

And if I keep focusing on the past, 
believing that I can find answers there, 
I will forget to return my attention to the present
here and now, 
where a more conscious acknowledgement of my place
can actually help 
the alignment of my spiritual and temporal molecules now. 

So being here now 
is the moment and the place 
where the alignment of who I am now can change. 
I am only a creature of the past and the future in my imagination. 

And my imagination is here to serve the present,
not to drag it down or destroy it, 
not to lift it up into places that can never exist. 
My imagination is here to bring me 
to an image of myself now, 
as I am, 
in the midst of the unknown. 

In the midst of glory and of beauty and of mystery, 
in the midst of grace without measure 
and the goodness of every beginning that takes place 
moment after moment. 

I bring the breathing into the goodness of this moment. 
I bring sensation into the goodness of this moment. 
I begin to accept this moment. 

Already a new alignment begins to arrive. 

Every cell and molecule in the body remembers its neighbors, 
strangely, even remembers me 
and I remember them  
and I see and sense here 
that alignment begins in this community of being 
which we create together. 

As this is true inwardly, 
so is it also true outwardly. 

And as this understanding penetrates my cells more deeply
I resolve 
to bring the best of the attention that I can muster 
to each relationship, 
both inward and outward, 
as this day arrives here and now.