ships that pass each other in the night

Ships that pass each other in the night

This is about YOU. Not just as YOU where you are now, but YOU as an intelligent human being with the future ahead of YOU a future that YOU can guide and control.

Everyone exists during a moment we all think of as NOW. Our future is blurred and unknown, and memories of our past quickly become hazy. This is like everyone in the world walking alone through a thick mist. This means that we have to learn the lessons of life as we move through time, or as time flows passed us. The world is filled with people who we will never meet or know, but who, just like we do, exist in the ‘Now’ moment, and who never know what the next moment will bring. Will it bring something awful or something wonderful?

Each of us has a path that we must follow as we journey through life. Sometimes the path runs alongside the paths of other people, friends, relations or workmates, for a short or long period of time and then those paths diverge leaving each of us alone to follow our own paths. I have explained this to you so that you may choose to become flexible enough in your outlook to be able to accept and expect changes during your life, but never to fear those changes. The same people that surround you now will at some time in the future go their own ways leaving you to continue along your own path. From this you will understand that no relationship with other people in your future life is rigid, permanent, or fixed, hence the old saying, “Ships that pass each other in the night”

The choice for you is whether you choose to be one of those ships feeling their ways uncertainly through the darkness and fog, or for you to be a lighthouse that radiates safety and light to those passing ships. To be able to become a lighthouse requires you to completely trust yourself and to trust in the future.

When you learn to trust in the future and what it may bring you cease to worry about yourself because you become confident that whatever the uncertain future brings you will cope with it, as you have done in the past. Knowing this you are then able to live completely and fully in the moment we think of as ‘Now’. Many people fail to live in the ‘Now’ moment because they fear what the future may bring or they long for past happiness and so their thoughts are always focused in the future or the past, never in the ‘Now’. The past is fixed and the future is unformed, so the only moment when any of us can control or change anything is during the ‘Now’ moment. Keep in mind that YOU are in charge of YOU, and what YOU decide is for YOU in the ‘Now’ moment shapes your future.
Love and Laughter from David and Yvonne