There is within my own life, an absence that serves as a continual reminder that our seemingly tiny and barely significant lives, have more depth and distance of impact in those of others than we can possibly ever know or imagine during our own.
A reminder that in the end no matter how insightful we might be, our own vantage point does not in fact reveal the beauty in the whole of the design as it is seen by the designer.
It is then important to bestow love and time in generous proportion, even and especially to those people who for no obvious or apparent reason, exist within our own lives, rather wasting our lives away by simply trying to get through them.
Trust me, someone, somewhere is watching you, observing you, taking their cues from you, you might inspire them... or you may be the final factor in breaking them... and yet you may never even realize that they exist.
You will impact them and they will remember those words and actions, that to them were profoundly significant, for years, things that came so naturally to you that you will have forgotten they ever happened in mere minutes.
No one can really say what is happening within someone else, or what burdens they may silently carry but they might just be enough to turn your nothing into their everything. I know... because I have been the recipient of such a profound and casual grace found in what I now call the five words that saved my life,"I'm glad I met you."
So enjoy your seemingly tiny and barely significant lives because they are neither tiny or insignificant. They are bigger and better than you will ever know, even in the smallest of details.
Take great care not to get so bogged down by the details of your own life that it requires the absence of another's to understand its impact on yours or the very real and invisible impact you may have in theirs.
Think about it... as though something very big hung in the balance...because it does.
Be good to yourselves, but more importantly be good to each other. Solo Cristo Salva
Happy Birthday Derek, and thank you Phillie Mike. Thank you both for the bittersweet gift. This one's for you.
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