dailydatewithgod

In project management, the design is to plan with the end in mind.  Then one backs up from the deadline to configure the milestones that need to be reached and what needs to happen to get to them and so on with the process so completion occurs.  We can’t plan our lives like a project as we do not know where we will always be going. There are some areas of our lives functioning this way, but not all.  However, we all have an expiration.  It is no secret that we are all going to take our last breath, our last expiration right after our last inhalation.  The topic of death, especially ones’ own death, often makes people uncomfortable.  I am not sure if we think if we do not keep it present in mind we will somehow stave it off or we just think it is sad to be aware of the expiration of our lives.  As someone who by all accounts was kind of like the walking dead for a long time with moments of wishing I would just expire I am not sure that it ever scared me.  The uncertainty around the circumstances causes me discomfort as much as uncertainty does in general.  As a person living in recovery and coming back from an experience where I was barely holding on or valuing the quality of my own life, I have a fresher perspective on expiration.  It sharpens the sight with which I view the present and all the inspirations I remember to pay attention to.  I am aware of how our hearts prompt us through inspiration to expiration.  On some level, I believe when we agreed to enter into this life and take the first inspiration we also agreed to our expiration.  Given the way all of life flows, it is clear we do not hold on to anything.  It is a series of inspirations and expirations.  In the elemental sense, the expiration is just as pivotal as the inspiration.  If we do not take the expiration, we will not be available for the next inspiration.  So while death is apparently the final expiration, maybe it is the step before the next inspiration.