Last month we featured a wonderful message to start our New Year about looking internally and resetting your priorities to increase productivity, written by the inspiring Chris Heeter.  This month, we wanted to feature a poem that Chris has written called the Tapestry of Moments.

Take a moment, sit back, and enjoy the important message behind this piece ☺

 

 

The Tapestry of Moments

 

If you live in a part of the world where,

looking out your window right now,

you see leaves in radiant shades

of crimson and saffron,

then, by any means necessary,

get yourself outside.

 

Look how sunlight or the muted tones of grey

make each leaf glow as they hold fast

or twist in the wind,

drifting and sailing on updrafts

as they make their way to ground.

 

Let these colors permeate your being.

The tang of dry leaves fill your senses.

Stand silent or shuffle your way through

leaves still bright in their falling.

 

And let these things teach you...again...

the beauty of a moment.

 

This is precious time.

And brief in its passing.

 

Let the colors and the swirling leaves

be your wisdom and your answer

for the part of your being that quakes at change.

 

For the part of you that looks longingly

at the well-lit, carefully decorated path called avoidance.

Its signposts speak of not getting your hopes up,

of anticipating loss—

as if that somehow will diminish the passing.

 

No, the antidote for resisting change or loss

is to live fully and Wildly in the moments.

To experience joy in all its forms:

the beauty, the mess, the beginnings, the endings.

 

 

Wild joy embraces, rather than braces against.

 

And in that embrace lies the ability to stop,

to feel -- rather than just look at --

the colors as the leaves change and fall.

 

To learn from all that is beautiful,

all that is fleeting, all that is Yes.

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