Heart Pocket Word for the Day is Together!

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The word from my heart pocket is Together.

We are a mish-mash of togetherness. We're living on this planet, each of us doing our best and our worst and sometimes not trying at all. All of us, expressing ourselves in our individual ways. We are making a picture. If we could pull the camera back far enough to see this movie we're making, if we could see ourselves on canvas, all together, simultaneously behaving and thinking and choosing, planning, scheming,dreaming - what would our togetherness look like? 

Would the good look different from the bad? Would virtue stand out, colorful and gleaming? How would negativity show up? Would it be just as bold?   

Would our picture look whole and in harmony? Would the contrast of our personalities overshadow the simplicity of our shared commonalities? Would ants and dogs and trees and rocks and humans blend together enough to be equally important to the picture? 

Would it reveal fearful and courageous hearts? Would we get to see how we look when we are joyful and when we are full of self-loathing? 

Together, is our painting composed with complimentary colors, an array of values and intensity? Is our movie a drama or a comedy? Is the musical score melodious or dissonant? Can we find ourselves inside our picture? Do we like what we see?

Together, we are creating our lives. We make space and fill it up. We run over each other and we lend a hand. We are blind to the one who lives across the hall. We see into the soul of a hungry child.

We can choose to disappear inside our painting, fading into the background, but when viewed as a whole, there we are, adding depth and reflection. We can fight to be the brightest color on the page, the loudest and the first to be noticed, and when seen from afar, we might look out of place and then again, we might be just what the painting needed at that moment in its creation.

Together. We're in this together. We aren't separate. We are vital and uniquely special. Our picture includes us all, no matter how hard some may try to exclude. Free will is the gift of self-expression of our being. Awareness/mindful living is the the sense of togetherness inside the art of free will.