Every second has its own intersection of time and space. At that very moment, a unique occurrence happens. While a given space may stay the same over time, time itself changes its appearance. Perhaps there are very good reasons why when we try to recapture the past, it doesn’t always look the same, or go according to plan.

If each moment is unique then the destination of that occurrence has to have its own locale. Recently a friend of mine returned to her 20th High School Reunion, at the same school that she graduated from. She was amazed to roam through the classrooms, see the gym and the principals office, which all looked the same, as if it was just yesterday. One important change was that everyone was twenty years older. Same space, different time. Now once in a while some things can stay the same, but overall, life is a wheel that just keeps on turning, moving forward. Many of us reach for the memories, while forgetting that the time has changed.

Each day that we live we create a series of intercepting moments, making our own private libraries of memories. The other day I had a conversation with someone who said to me, “Jennifer, do you know that today is tomorrow’s yesterday?” Strange, but true. Still, how often do we try to capture Time in a bottle? Does each moment have its own distinctive address? Do we walk through the corridors of time consistently opening and closing doors? To understand our successes and failures, we have to look in the right direction. If all we see is the place but not the time, is it any wonder how easy it is to get lost?

To take a flight to a distant city and arrive safely we have to rely on the experience of the flight crew and the maintenance of the airplane. To take a trip through time we have to be sure that we have the correct coordinates. The terrain of history is awash with pitfalls and plateaus. Time and space, the mixture that weaves through the fabric of the Universe. As long as we live here, we participate in its makeup. We may not be able to put Time in a bottle, but the trick is to not need to.

When you truly appreciate each moment, they’re easier to let go of.

Live each moment,
love, Jennifer Avalon
© 2004 Jennifer Avalon

Will we ever get it right here on Planet Earth? Perhaps not….but we CAN make it better. Sometimes I wonder why so many of us have our heads screwed on backwards. We chase the gold at the end of the rainbow, believing that it is there that true happiness resides, yet so many realize that when they get there, they’ve lost pieces of themselves along the way. Life is supposed to be an education, based upon past experiences and learned knowledge. Still, it is so easy to choose the wrong knowledge to learn.

Mankind as a whole, over the eons of Time, has struggled with discipline and structure. We constantly fight the confines of Life that can keep us on the straight and narrow and even keel. Expansion is great, but responsibility has to go with it. These confines help us experience what is acceptable, and what is not, to progress ourselves in a healthy and positive way. We are constantly redefining right from wrong daily…somewhere in the back of our minds there is a little rulebook that we live by. It is left to us overall to decide what ink graces the pages of that book.

Whether we choose it or not, we accept a belief system to live by. Even those who do not believe in a God, establish a protocol to live by. There are rules to live by, laws not to break. Some find this out the easy way, some the hard way. Truly, one man’s ceiling can be another man’s floor. The blocks of Life are left for us to build upon…the structures we create are based upon our beliefs, education, personalities, expressions, and conclusions. The buildings we create both physically and spiritually become the remnants of our lives when we are gone. If one digs a hole and chooses not to fill it, it will be filled by someone or something for them.

The Learning of Life is the ultimate Art. So many express it in so many ways. The imperfections of Humanity may not be expected to get it totally right, but they are expected to try. Each generation is expected to become better than the previous. We are supposed to perch on the shoulders of those who came before, until one day we can see the clouds of Heaven. There can be no Art, if we are not Learning, and there can be no Learning, if we have no Art.

Life is an ongoing Masterpiece,
love, Jennifer Avalon
(c) 2004 Jennifer Avalon

There are many things in life that we don’t have control over, but our perception of them, we do. This perception affects our state of mind and in doing so, we choose whether to rejoice in the light, or lurk in the shadows.

It never ceases to amaze me how two people can look at the same picture and come away with two totally opposite viewpoints of what their eyes have seen. Interpretation is incorporated into just about everything we encounter in life. The affects of these interpretations place us on an emotional scale where joy and freedom sits at the top, and fear and despair reigns at the bottom. The Shadow and the Light….two opposite spectrums within a world of consistent contradictions. Which we choose and which prism we look through, eventually rests with us.

The Light is where the soul and the spirit synchronizes with the Divine, and sees the greater picture that never changes. We live, we love, and we transform to the next level. Death is not a punishment….but a transition. We come here, we live, and we leave…pure and simple. What we fill with that time in-between is up to us. The Light acknowledges all of this….and with the fear of death subsided, one truly learns to live.

The Shadow embraces all that we fear. It feeds off anger, and depression. In every joyous day, the Shadow looks for the failures. The Shadow is an emotional blackmailer…never allowing us to feel joy for too long until it is sucked away into the darkness. It is a cloak that can leave one feeling cold and despairing. This Shadow can make one fear love. It never gives answers, it just lets the circle of sadness go round and round. Some unfortunately have decided to kneel at the altar of the Shadow, believing that life can be no other way.

The Shadow and the Light…two different ways to walk the road into eternity. One a diary of learning, where Heaven is home. The other, a storm that never seems to end, with a compass that goes haywire. We have all met people from both. It’s never hard to see the difference. The Shadow and the Light compete daily for the heart of our souls. In the course of a lifetime, we can slip back and forth between the two, but at the end of the day we become imbedded in one or the other.

I believe in life…it rests on all of us to embrace love, and compassion, and reject the forces of fear and oppression. Getting there can sometimes be quite a journey….yet when the Light shines, all the reasons become quite clear. When all of our hearts are turned on, there can be no darkness.

Choose the Light,
Jennifer Avalon
(c) 2004 Jennifer Avalon