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Time is when the clouds form, the shadow moves, the wind breathes. When the tide ebbs and flows, as the storms gather, as the evening twilight emerges and in its turn vanishes. When ripples broaden, clouds form and the bud opens; eternally present yet passing. All this is time, the beginning and the end. Time is ever present in its instant, but moving on. For now is the moment: hesitate and it has passed, for a new moment is born. Time is.

I have lived in my body for many years now, but when time comes, it may be for me to depart this planet, to lay my body aside and depart with my soul to whence I came. The happenings, the seasons gone by and deeds in years past, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, a second ago has all passed on. No one instant may be reclaimed for now is the only time that I have. My past is no longer with me, it has passed and is now only a memory. I am unable to exist in the past, that opportunity has departed and, except as a recollection, it is out of my grasp. Likewise I am unable to be in the future, I might forward plan but the future remains beyond my reach. The only moment that I have is now, this moment, this instant.

I may be fully present in the instant, present with my thoughts and feelings. I may, if I choose, be in the moment and in the company of love. Whichever feeling I am with is the one I am encouraging. If I am attention grabbing, I am supporting that ego and fanning its ember. If I am loving I am sustaining the love within. Choosing to be with other than love renounces my right to offer and receive love and the opportunity dies and the moment is lost. I have this choice now and the power of this decision is mine to make. I may consciously join with love to cherish and embrace it in the moment. It and the opportunity this instant brings will never return, for the moment has gone. If I have not shared it with love then that opportunity is missed and gone forever. I receive each instant, each opportunity, only fleetingly. Each is a wonder.

It is my assignment of life to make very instant one of love, and that occasion is with me now. This is the only instant available, there is no other. In it I have the option to be with love and so secure my eternity. My teacher is here now, my teacher is love. Be with the teacher. Indeed, why be with any other for there is only one teacher. There are no questions for the answer is love.

Being in the instant is being present in the instant, but being in the presence with which feeling? Being argumentative is being argumentative in the moment and I am free to be with that awareness, which in itself is an experience of living. My mood is able to change though, from being argumentative to being happy or some other sentiment. Rather than letting the egos run my moment, I may sway my mood and choose some other company in the moment. I may reject being in my argumentative mind and I may alternatively welcome in love, allowing myself to be kind, compassionate and cheerful. So I may avoid fear and hurt. I have this choice and thus I am free to choose love and be in the company of my soul. The more I practice being with love in this way, the more love will accompany me in my life. The precious instant of loving and being love then widens into my immediate reality.

I do not see electricity but it is there and I may unquestionably feel it. Likewise I often do not see love, but it too is there and again I may feel it. It is for me to choose. The more I determine to search for love, the more I discover love and the more I enhance my relationship. Love is always present, I simply need to seek and accept it. As I acknowledge the physical existence of electricity, I may also admit to the spiritual presence of love. I may plug into love as a permanent connection wherever I am. Love is the energy of my life and the moment to be with love is now. It, like electricity, is instantaneous, its source surrounds me, love cannot fail. I may drink of love freely, taking my fill; I may accept its abundance. The cup of love is overflowing, its quality is assured. To love and be loved in every instant is my soul task on planet earth, I have no other calling.

This moment is given to me, I can waste it allowing the dominance of the egos or make eternal use of the presence given. I may be present without being attached, aware but not caught up. I am allowed to receive wisdom and absorb love, it is my birthright, I just need to dare to accept. I am free to do these things, only I (the ego) can be a hindrance to my being love.

In this way I am able to restore myself, now is my new beginning, each and every instant. This moment I may look inwardly, observing, searching coming to know, comprehending, and being aware of all that is love. In any instant I may be with love, I may be with the child within, with my soul. If I look outwardly at the many people and things surrounding me and try to assess them and understand them, I am diverted away from the real me, away from my soul whom I have so long neglected. In this very moment love is within me, am I in that same place?

With love as a companion I am to make today a day where my feet take me only in the direction of love, leading me towards peace. May the path I tread be the path of wisdom and hope, joining with others so all may share? Should I veer off course, may I inwardly quickly realise and return to love. Today may my hands reach out to love, being caring in all they do. May I touch others with love and be touched with love by others, giving and receiving love; living love. Let my eyes see the beauty and my mind be complete.

Do not start the day expecting to get something out of it, rather spend the day putting love into it, at work or at play. Then, as I put love into my surroundings, I pass love on to others. As I give to the universe I will be repaid many times and I, together with others on this planet will be restored. Rejoice, for today is given to me for loving, today I will love, today I will only be love. I will only do loving deeds, I will only say loving words. Let my mouth speak truth, may the words I utter not deviate. If anything I think, do or say is not loving, then I choose to be silent so the opportunity is offered for love to re-enter. Again find love and cherish the moment so that peace, truth and forgiveness remain within.

Yes, I have much loving to do today, to love everyone I see, everyone I meet and everyone whose life I touch. To love myself, to love my neighbour, the visitor, the stranger, my adversary and all of nature. Everyone and everything of nature that surrounds me is love, my soul is love. In the past I have sometimes forgotten these things and I became confused, looking blindly and not seeing. I previously perceived differently.

These matters are vital, for this may be the last time I touch you and the last time you touch me. Grasp the moment firmly with both hands for the opportunity is now. Never let go of love, rather join with others so all may share. Seek in each moment to be abundantly living love. Not to do so is living to die. The choice is mine. This journey is urgent but take time to tread cautiously for each instant is sacred. Aspire never to abuse a single one.

If I am not finding love then I am to search differently, for love is surely there. I am to keep seeking, for even if a shadow is present there has to be light. Then having found love, I do not let go. I take love on board as a friend and partner to accompany me from moment to moment to eternity. There is no more powerful ally. I look now to pursue my learning with love and the presence of nature. All is here to be seen and felt. See and feel the beauty and hear the triumphant rejoicing.

As I release the fears of my living I make space to receive love. Then, as I accept, I may continue along on my journey, moving with time and receiving the newness of life, relinquishing the old and embracing the new. Over past times I have been afraid but now is the time of my renewal. I am here on this earth as the representative of love. What is there to be afraid of?

As I maintain my focus on the love within, I am no longer abandoning the time given to me, but should I abuse the moment, the precious opportunity is spent forever. In every moment my responsibility is to accept love. Life has no other worthy cause.

My undertaking is to breathe love and be in this moment of wonderment, to experience and honour the joy, else I am dieing to myself. Love is ever present; love is here within me now and I may again recognise and embrace it as my every day for life companion. Otherwise I wither allowing myself to fade and wane away. As I actively live love I am recognising the life given to me. Love will prevail as long as I accept its presence. I do not have to wait for a chance to love, the moment is now. We each have the ability to help in this work, whether at home, at a job, out and about, wherever: in each instant my feeling, thoughts, inlook and outlook may favour the loving answer. By reuniting with my soul, I restore myself, my fellow beings and everything that is nature.

I got myself here to this moment in my life, why would I expect some other to come along and resolve my situation for me? So many, so many, want the instant miracle, the waving of a wand, rather than taking time out to learn love. I was given and still have the gift of freedom of choice, given to me in the beginning. Each decision to my destiny is mine to make. I am to initiate the first move in my reconnection to love. If I choose love then love will unfailingly help and the wonder occurs, it cannot be otherwise. But only I can start the process and ask for this companionship. I can pick no better ally.

I myself have the great power of love, visible within me and through me; it's just that I have hidden it. I have buried it deep within to the delight of the egos. Love is my birthright, I was born love with the assignment to give and receive love, now and always. There is always a season of growing, there is always a season of sowing: now is the time to plant and nourish love and bestow the fruits of my future. There is an ocean of love available; I am free to take the plunge. I may drink of love freely, taking my fill, accepting its abundance. Love will always assist. Why would love do anything else? Why would I do anything else? My soul yearns for my loving presence. The child within yearns my presence. The only possible error I can make in the instant is not to choose to be with the love that resides within.

Quietly consider for a few moments that if there were just two people remaining on planet earth, what might they do together? Be happy, be compassionate, love and forgive one another?
Maybe you would like to do this now before you move on in these writings.

Or if there were only three, four, five, or even ten people left, might they all be joyous, all be content and all love one another? Or might some be covetous, envious and resentful?
Quietly also consider this.

Similarly if there were just one hundred people left on planet earth, might they be living harmoniously, or would there be jealousy, rivalry, disputing? Might there be loathing, the forming of groups and factions?

If there were thousands, millions of people left on planet earth, would most be full of hope loving one another? Or would there be greed, separation and killing? How many children would go hungry? Hungry for love, hungry for food?

Today, now at this moment, there are billions on planet earth: many may be loving in the instant but billions are judging, being resentful, grasping, disputing, forming factions and fighting. Many millions are hungry and there is much sadness and misery. Consider these things.

If you and I were the last two people left on planet earth today, what will I do? What will you do?

It may be the last time you see the next person you meet today. What will you do?

This instant is the seed of my future.

Practice.
In peace consider the instant. Accept the wonder of the given moment. Be present in the moment.

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