The great ocean of life

I begin
By attuning every sense in my body to presence,
To receive the energy that flows into the body and into being.

This energy is even more powerful than life itself.
For it gives birth to life.
And it gives birth to life here in this moment.

This is an astonishing thing.
I stand before it from within myself.
Immersed in the rain of creation, which brings the water that feeds the soul.

And like a newborn, I know nothing about this world that I have just arrived in.
So I will need to begin all over again today to learn yet again what it means to
live here and now not in thought and reaction but in being and in presence.

My presence is quite still at this moment.
And it's quite still in order to provide no barrier and mount no opposition 
To the inward flow of life itself into being.

And I sing.
I sing into this water.
I sing into this life with joy and thanksgiving for the simple opportunity to be.
I know that today I will swim in a great ocean of outer life, swept by tides, distracted by currents.

And yet I am not a foreigner.
Not an alien to life in this sea.

I am like a fish, an inhabitant.
And with presence and being, I can begin to see that this is a natural medium for me.
One which I am being born now with all of the tools I need to navigate this life.

Today I hope to bring truth and goodness together in me and swim in this ocean of life
With truth and goodness as my compass and my guide.