Waiting - Just being present

At the beginning of my morning meditation, I start by reading a passage from one of my favorite writer's
Mark Nepo.  Here is an excerpt from this morning's:

At times life seems an enormous waiting room with no destination, in which some walk stiffly to and fro, waiting for the pain to stop. Others wait for something good to happen. Still others fear that something bad will begin. The driven plan while they wait. I am each of them.

It is such a struggle-has always been-for each of us to settle deep enough into the wait, into the weight till we discover that there's nowhere to go.

Perhaps the greatest challenge, once fully awake, is to drop all reaching and simply open like a clam waiting in the deep until life in all its guises floods through the half-closed center that is us.

Then God enters us like a brilliant stone falling in a lake, and the past ripples behind us and the future ripples before us and we are breathing in eternity.

           as you enter your day, try not to reach for life, try not to leave or arrive, try to let life enter you.