Thursday, December 6, 2012

"Life itself is a gift....."

This lovely offering, from the book A Grateful Heart: Daily Blessings for the Evening Meal from Buddha to the Beatles, says a lot, I think, about why people volunteer in hospice....

"How easily we forget how precious life is! So long as we can remember, we've just been here, being alive. Unlike other things for which we have a comparison -- black to white, day to night, good to bad -- we are so immersed in life that we can see it only in the context of itself. We don't see life as compared to anything, to not-being, for example, to never having been born. Life just is. But life itself is a gift. It's a compliment just being born: to feel, breathe, think, play, dance, sing, work, make love, for this particular lifetime. Today, let's give thanks for life. For life itself! For simple being born!" ~ Daphne Rose Kingma