In Every Person and Every Moment

The experience of a fast food restaurant doesn’t take much thinking — stand in line, get your food, and then eat. Sometimes we go through that routine without even noticing how the food tastes.

The experience of a fine restaurant is tuned and timed to whet our appetite. The service, presentation, and atmosphere are choreographed in extraordinary detail so that we savor every bit.

Unfortunately, most life experiences don’t come served up like a visit to a fine restaurant. A sunrise, a gorgeous flower, or a new friend enters our life, and it’s up to us to see the extraordinary.

The world serves up beautiful experiences with incredible people — all through our ordinary moments. What waits in them is deeper, richer, and more valuable than a fast-food glance will ever reveal. Every person and every moment offers a wealth of ways to connect, to belong, to make our lives easier, more meaningful, and more fun.

The extraordinary details of life are the fine food experiences that feed our souls.

Where are the extraordinary details in your life?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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about the power of being fully present.

I’ve noticed a power that comes from being present. It’s state of mind. It’s a heartfelt state of fact. If I give myself over to what’s happening, I find myself fully alive and able to enter into the moment.

Problems, difficult conversations, and huge misunderstandings take on smaller proportions when I let them have my full attention. It’s the distractions, the noises I let in, that complicate, that cause friction and pain. When only my mind is listening, I can find myself over analyzing or adding false context to a situation. When it’s just my heart, I can be overly generous or getting confused about what I “should be” feeling. When I’m only part there, I’m only getting part of the available information.

When I’m at the head, heart, and purpose of the moment. I’m complete and connected. I’m not looking for something from another person. I can take in all of the information. The integrity of who I am — like the structure of a building — holds me strong and sturdy. I can give attention. I can give and forgive, and understand.

The power of being fully present is that we have nothing missing.
We don’t need anything when we listen.

Have you felt the power of being fully present?