For months I have been reading daily meditations by the author and theologian Frederick Buechner. It’s called Listening to Your Life and it’s just beautiful. It gives me pause and inspires. Today’s entry is worth sharing here because it reminds me that prayer is often as simple as listening to God by noticing his creations. As a Jew, I thank God each day for returning my soul to my body. I try to do this as I awake each morning. This entry by Buechner reminds me to seize the moment. It’s called Today:

“It is a moment of light surrounded on all sides by darkness and oblivion. In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another just like it and there will never be another just like it again. It is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you aware of how precious it is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all. ‘This is the day which the Lord has made,’ says the 118th Psalm. ‘Let us rejoice and be glad in it.’ Or weep and be sad in it for that matter. The point is to see it for what is is because it will be gone before you know it.”

My today is busy with life, but I’m trying to remember how special it is because I’m here and I now notice how unique this moment of time is in my life.