This new life today

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Today it’s the other way around.

Every day I begin life again as a resurrection 
emerging from the tomb of sleep
 into a new life 
which may seem to resemble the life I have had before this, 
but which is in this moment, in fact, completely new.   

Because the world within time is made completely new 
over and over again within each moment.   

And so, I can begin my life all over again here 
perhaps even as though I had never existed 
and were free of all the things 
that time and people have put into me 
so that I can begin now 
like a newborn child
to encounter a new world 
and come into relationship with everything 
as though I had not touched it before 
and it had not touched me.   

Here is where all the things that people and events have ever put in me end.   

I begin again prepared to go forward 
and encounter the facts of life 
without inflection,
 to take life in exactly as it is 
without my opinions   

to accept everything just as a fact.   

I will be quite still within myself today when I make that effort 
to just let the world enter as a truth, 
to sense myself
to let this new life flow into me as a substance, 
perhaps even as grace itself.   

A loving action that brings being here to me as an offering
made out of kindness and mercy, 
an offering to Be which has no strings attached to it.   

I allow myself to sense every cell in my body, 
every molecule.  
For all of them are here now, a vast community,   
trillions upon trillions of particles 
that are here together now in communion,   
singing a hymn that I can barely hear.   

Understanding the ideas of prayer and praise not with the mind,   
but organically 
in the marrow of my bones,   

singing here of a new day and a new life
asking me if I am willing to go forth into this new day and this new life,   
not with fear and negation,   
but with love and kindness 
held out in front of me 
as the offering I bring into this life.   

This new life today.