Where life first enters being

No matter where I have come from, 
or where I imagine I may be going, 
there is one thing that is certain, 
and that is that here, now, is where I am. 

And everything that I can undertake 
to form a new, possibly different relationship with my life 
is here and now. 

I can dream all I want to 
about the way things might have been different 
or the way that things might magically be different in the future. 

Yet everything, even the things that I dream
are here now. 

And so in this moment, 
I reach for the part that can help 
to support the deepest experience of this moment. 

The connection that roots me to now. 

The faculty that sees now. 

The understory of my perception here is my sensation. 
I'm filled with a subtle vibration of being 
that extends downwards towards the root of my soul, 
coming on the way 
into contact with every molecule. 

This vibration begins to concentrate itself here and now 
in the lower part of the body. 

And although this is the place where the vibration is strong now, 
it is, in fact, quite evenly dispersed throughout the body. 

It has just collected itself to remind me of my connection to the planet. 

My sensation is part of the sensation of this planet. 

I slowly begin to realize 
that it is a part of the entire sensation of this solar system, 
and that it has qualities which are imparted 
by the moon and by the sun. 

And I begin to surrender to those great forces of life and being, 
sensing that I am here on the edge of that great glory 
which both creates and sustains 
this moment now 
and the life I am in. 

I begin to sense and to see 
that my value begins here 
at the root of my awareness 
where life first enters being.