Monday Memo| Detail No.90| February 26, 2024.

February Theme— Spark

Hi there,

It's the last memo for the month of February. Let's get straight into it.

Sitting in my room having dinner, I peacefully watched the trees as they were stirred by the breeze of rain.

The diversity of life was amazing: the birds tried to scare their competition away from their nest ; the ants on a pheropone path, were gathering leaves.

Suddenly, I also realized that even ants had a methodology for survival, the birds weren't any different, both the birds and the ants had the spark of life. 

Hardly able to continue eating my meal, I paused, trying to understand this discovery. 

As uniquely different as the creatures were, they were all the same — they were alive. When one of the ants suddenly began to drift away, other ants communicated to it to follow the right direction.

Every living creature, I suddenly realized, has a treasure—they are alive, and then they are dead.

They have the spark of life, and then it disappears.

If lucky enough not to find itself in cooking pans, hens may live in backyard flocks for six to years. Bees live a season. Hibiscus, bougainvillea, and roses have seasons then they lose their bloom. They all lose their spark of life.

A human is one breath away from death. The physical spark of life will immediately disappear as one take the last breath. All of what is physically living is here ... then it is not. 

So, why make the choice of dimming you light, when you can be a spark to others?

Why not choose NOW, rather than differ it to later?

Why choose to focus on the negatives, than the brightest positives?

Why spread hate, when love is the easiest route?

Why pass on the torch of strife and envy, when praise and well wishes wouldn't cause you harm?

The kindling of sparks is the necessary light and warmth in our lives. This is the nature of the human relationship with creation, and it leads to a deeper awareness of the part we must play in the great scheme of things.

So it matters, my friends, that we attend to our spark — to that which makes us come alive. It matters that we make time and courage-filled space to nurture that which makes us most glad to wake up in the morning.

Together we are held in our learning and our growing. We can offer each other grace for the learning and the growing.

Together we can release our expectations of perfection and offer each other the hope of excellence — which is possible when we trust ourselves and each other to honor the life giving spark in each of us.

Dearest ones, your precious lives matter so much. Treat yourself and others as the beloved sparks of miraculous life that you are. For then we can truly come alive in this world.