By this very minute… we are all getting older.
Here is sort of how it works… how we keep track of time. The hands just keep moving their way around the face of the clock. That part is for sure. But on the bigger scale. The earth spins…. day and night… and night and day… on it axis. Cock-a-doodle do.
All the while…. this big blue ball….whirls along its predetermined orbital path around…. and around…. the sun. Our moon sticks right with us. But there are other planets.. and other moons…. each with their circular schedule around the sun. The mechanics of it are miraculous. Incredible.
Is it all complete randomness…. or a very well constructed pattern… a defined schematic?
Tonight… we went to our oldest grandchild’s birthday party. It seems like all I did was blink…. and this earth of ours… had done eighteen laps around the sun.
And as I stood there tonight… amongst those people who I love very much… who mean so much to me… I was so glad & grateful for that moment. I was so thankful for all the moments…. and for sharing that time with them.
I simply cannot believe that it is sheer dumb luck… or complete randomness… that you are you. And I am me. That they are who they are.
Just like the earth has a very well defined orbital path around the sun… passing different planets at different times…., I think too, that we have orbits. We move through life.. passing different people at different times… all on their separate paths. Some of us coming closer than others. But each… on a unique circular schedule.
On the other hand… I think there are unexplainable things which happen completely in a random and nonsensical way. Like Justin Bieber finding fortune and fame.
I can’t pretend to know how any of this works… to be honest. I just know that tonight I am thankful for who I am… and where I am. I am grateful for those good and lovely people in my life. And that our paths have joined together… whether by design, or by arbitrary tumble.
I happen to think… that somehow… it was meant to be. Exactly as it is.