Tuesday, October 1, 2013

A special birthday

When I was in college, I sent out a "thought for the day" to some of my friends and family each day. I liked searching for quotations that were moving or thought provoking. So, for Jasen's 40th birthday, I selected a "thought" to share....


to Jasen....

"Each life is a language no one knows. With every heartbreak, discovery and unexpected moment of joy, with every lift of music that touches us where we didn't think we could be touched, with every experience, another letter in our alphabet is decoded. Take a step; learn a word. Feel a feeling; decode a sign. Accept a truth; translate a piece of the mystery written in your heart.
Before we live what's next, it always seems like there is some answer we need to arrive at. But daring to enter, we are humbled to discover, again and again, that the act of living itself unravels both the answer and the question. When we watch, we remain riddles to be solved. When we enter, we become songs to be sung.
When life feels far off, remember that a flute is just something hard with holes until it's played. So, too, the heart. As matches are just sticks until lit, as ice is not quenching until thawed, questions and problems remain obstacles only until lived."

~Mark Nepo








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