It's so fleeting, tenuous and precious.
We live it daily, not giving it a thought.
Yet before birth, we were handed an amusement ride ticket called "life" and nobody knows when it's time to turn that ticket back in- - or if we will be asked to exchange it for a different ride while still at the park.
This Fall I have been teaching brain injured college students the creative arts for self discovery.
They remind me every time that I see them that a mere one second occasion can totally change a life in unexpected dramatic ways.
Some of their stories are so deeply sad. For instance the super athletic, high achieving high school student who was transformed to a wheel chair, fuzzy speech, occasional unexpected convulsions due to an accident.
The high functioning student now confined to a wheel chair, grieving his old life after going to his high school home coming.
The students stricken by brain cancer at an early age and now, despite profound enthusiasm and intelligence, bear the burden of equally profoundly tenacious health.
The ski accident survivor who smashed head first into a tree and does so well with his verbal skills but can not decipher his own hand writing.
In a way, despite our "dominion over the earth", our lives are as fragile as those of insects and trees.
What a reminder to live our lives fully, with wisdom and discernment yet faith and passion.
What a reminder to honor and follow our dreams.
What a reminder to express gratitude every day for the many blessings that we have.
Amazingly, most of my students, despite their intense challenges have a very positive attitude, and believe in God - and that God is working with them.
So many of us get up every day and go onto our routines taking everything for granted, not thinking of anything except our schedule or something wrong in our personal world.
These students are teaching me, and through this I would like to remind you that with the tenacious preciousness that our lives/our worlds represent, it is so vastly important for us to live it fully, gratefully and with honor towards ourselves and all others who we interact with.
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