What is given

I do not so often hear it,  
but my life calls me into life,  
singing to me,  
come,  
be with me here.  
Be with me now.  

And as I awaken in the morning, 
I am called to the dawn 
to be within this body and to rejoice.  

For the day is already good before I reach it.  
The sky already has light in it,  
from a sun that shines perpetually on all things,  
never knowing night itself,  
for it always gives its light,  
even if I am turned away from it for a while.  

And as life calls me back into life 
here and now,  
I relax and sense my cells and molecules,
intending to become more receptive
of the fine substance of that light 
that moves through all things 
to penetrate me  more deeply,  
to receive life more deeply here.  

Now, in this body,  every molecule of this body.  

The more deeply I receive the impressions of my life, 
the closer I get to the substance  which is deposited there, 
over the course of a lifetime growing a new organ in me, 
which has a wish to give thanks.  

And now I gently touch that wish,
reciprocally, 
in the same way that it gently touches me.  

And together, we ask ourselves the question, 
how can we give thanks more deeply for this life?  

It is unknown.  

And yet the very act of attention within life is a prayer of thanks.  

And so I begin to see in every cell 
that if I offer my attention, 
I am offering thanks 
for the great glory of life and being that arise 
here and now 
in every creature under the sun.  

I cannot be here forever.  
It is important while I am here  
to maintain a thread of contact with this marrow within me,  
in my bones,  
that remembers it is right to render thanks and praise 
for what is given in this life 
is very good indeed.