Time in a Bottle

May 31, 2011

Time in a Bottle

I am the one who is running out of time. I am the one who knows that I don’t have all the time in the world.  I am the one who is afraid that I can’t get everything done in time.

I am the one who has so much to do and to share with the world and not enough time to do it. I am the one who tries to capture time and save it, hoard it, hang on to it because I think I can control it better this way.

My message for you today is this: Pay attention to your relationship with time. You are hurting yourself with your attitude towards time. Time keeps ticking on, even if you hoard all of the clocks in the world into locked jars and cabinets.

 

This card is one that I made several years ago and it accurately reflects exactly how I feel about the passing of time.  Sometimes I look at it and think that the large image of the woman in the top right corner might be the Keeper of Time, but whenever I read from it, I tap into the energy of the sadness of time passing. So here it came to me again, last week, in one of my daily readings, and after I had just gone on at length in my journal about how there is so much to get done, and how am I going to get it all done..etc. You know the drill!

I find great comfort in this card, even though it seems to remind me of my powerlessness in the face of Time.  It helps me to remember that time is just a mental construct, and that as long as I keep myself in THIS moment, right now, that is all that matters.

And when I CAN do this… stay in the present moment…. then I find deep peace, and my worries and fears about getting everything done (or not done!) simply fade away.

2 thoughts on “Time in a Bottle”

  1. Anne Marie,

    Thanks for the reminder about staying in the moment I am involved in several projects this summer–some with family–some with leading retreats–and I seem to have too much going on. I could and sometimes do get worried about getting it all done, but need to take it one thing at a time in the present moment.

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  2. I hear you, Priscilla! Staying in THIS moment, right now, is the only antidote to the hurriedness of our lives. And it’s also a great antidote to fear (ie: cancer returning). Have fun with your retreats. Hope you can come to the KaleidoSoul one next June. We will miss you!

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