What Comes Next

And in all of this watching and wondering, I realized I was waiting. Waiting as my life changed yet again. Waiting for the answer to the question what next? to reveal itself. Sometimes I felt like I was supposed to be practicing patience, practicing acceptance, practicing openness.

Until finally I saw, once again, the lesson that takes a lifetime and gives for a lifetime, day in and night out: what is next is what is now. Each and every moment of now, of the sunrise and starlight and moonset and fog and sparkle and cool water, every moment of laughter and tears and longing and love, all of it, that was what was coming next. If I am lucky enough to catch it.

And it is now. So I am lucky. We all are.

~ Dominique Browning

From Dominique Browning's lovely memoir Slow Love.