Oh where dark meets light
In amongst the hours of dread
Joy screams eternal
Me
This early morning, facing the rising sun, I sat looking out at the constantly changing pine covered hills in front of me, with just a few homes dotted here and there. Yet again I found my gaze drawn to the ridge of the hills. I considered that those distant pine trees, silhouetted against the skyline, could see what lies on both sides. It made me think about my mountain climb through a forest of grief, only not just a climb but carrying with me the rock that is trying to hold my heart together. Then I thought about mountaineers, and I wondered whether this is what motivates them to climb mountains – to see the view on the other side. Perhaps many of us are motivated to move forward in our own great and small endeavours in order to see what lies on the other side. Maybe it is a God given intuitive motivation, or at least ancestral, to keep us challenging life and ourselves, in the hope that we can move towards a better future. With this thought floating around in my mind it struck me how important it is to understand that everything we do today matters, because our todays become set-in-stone yesterdays, and we can’t stop the tomorrows from arriving as urgent todays. Our every move alters the view that we will see on the other side. We take great risks when we don’t consider seriously the consequences of all our thoughts and actions; we need to make better choices for our future selves. We are so much more, and equally so much less, than simply a pair of butterfly wings fluttering out there somewhere in the world. I know because the Buddha tells me so.
jennie's red book 
It is so true that most of us are trying to improve our lives in one way or another. It is so hard to take risks but then if we don’t we will never know what the thing that we are trying to improve will be like and maybe we will stay safe but be disappointed that we didn’t have the courage to try. xxxx
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I couldn’t agree more, Ann.
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