Monday in the Second Week of Lent

A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. – Rinpoche

Nothing is static. We are not even in control of what thoughts or emotions are going to arise, nor can we halt their flow. Even persistent pain, when we pay attention to it, changes like the tides.
Because of the current economy, we feel less secure, uncertain, and groundless. Although we know that all is impermanent, we have deep seeded aversion to it. We want permanence, we expect permanence. Our natural tendency is to seek security; we believe we can find it.

Life does go up and down. People and situations are unpredictable, and we need not suffer because of our inability to halt change. It is time we say to ourselves, “We are all always in transition, and I can relax with that.” If we can we accept impermanence and quit trying to escape its inevitability, we will be able to live in the moment and in all its glory

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.