One Letter Off
I really don’t know where this is going, so let’s take this thrill ride together. Buckle up!
I got an email from someone who wrote that he didn’t get what he ordered. I checked the order and noticed that the email address he put on the order form and the address on the email he just sent me were one letter off. A quick fix.
It got me to thinking how often we may be one letter off in life and not getting what we believe we ordered. I remember taking a computer course in college in writing computer language. You could write the simplest, coded instruction, and if it was one letter off, it wouldn’t work. Quite frustrating as I remember.
It occurs to me that the word “Scared” and the word “Sacred” are one letter off. What sacred thing are you seeking that you’re scared that you’re not going to get?
For some, it’s life after death. On my list of 500 things to be scared of, that checks in at about 498. I’m more scared that I’m not living the life I have now. After all, doesn’t one of the sacred proverbs remind us that “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”?
Are you putting off the sacred now for a future that may not exist? That’s scary!
The only living you can be assured of is the living you are doing now. How well are you living? I’m not referring to “high on the hog” living, but the living that comes from enjoying the life you currently have. It’s the only one you know for sure that you’ll get. I hope that doesn’t scare you, unless it scares you into living now.
I’m not sure this went anywhere, but it certainly crystalized for me that the scary future can be neutralized by living in the sacred now.
All the best,
John
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