Week 13: Our Walk In The World

While much is important, very little is urgent. Understanding this is the threshold to peace. ~Mark Nepo

We are linked in our humanity the way the earth holds a tree, so that tree can hold a nest, so that nest can hold a bird, so that bird can drop a seed that will in time give birth to the next tree.

• Week 13: Our Walk In The World
• The Book of the soul - 52 paths to living what matters by Mark Nepo

Our Walk In The World

Our challenge in this life is to both survive and thrive, yet in times of turmoil, survival is difficult. It helps to understand the individual growth we each discover. Some of us are worn from the chaos, struggling with love and loss, and in this darkness, we neglect the light, avoiding what could inspire change. 

For so long, and probably still, my dreams have been stained by the scars of grief. This pit of sorrow I sink into when life gets hard is fueled by an overrun of urgency. Our days are filled with endless alarms and crises, consuming our thoughts with fear and anxiety. Slowly we understand how often these predicaments were never as urgent as we thought.

Mark Nepo wrote, “while much is important, very little is urgent.”  The truth is that unless someone is bleeding or can’t breathe, there is no urgency. It is his reminder to slow down and be present. That both the good and bad will pass. Which enhances our cue to be present. Not every moment needs to be captured, maybe instead we just sit with the emotion of it all. Observing the rise or set of the sun, the warmth on your skin, the beauty you witness. Can that be enough? 

It is all a part of our walk in the world. The story we are living and learning. The peaks and valleys that will always be there, where through it all we find friendship and community, connection and purpose and the ways to support one another on our walk.