So I have a friend who is a Franciscan monk and we were talking once over a glass of wine, as we often did and should do again, and we were talking about the Mass and how he hates to say, Mass has ended, go in Peace at the end of the Mass. (This is traditionally said at the end of every catholic mass). When I asked him why that was, he said that in his mind the mass is our time to be in touch with our greater power and that is a dialogue that has no beginning and no end. We may step away from the conversation, we may not listen or even doubt that anyone is listening or that there is even a conversation going on at all, but it is always there. There is always a force for good in the universe and it is always there for us. We may not always like what it has to say or even want to hear it - it is always there and we are always in communion with it because it is within us. So stop and take a moment to acknowledge that if nothing else there is something amazing in this world that keeps us going and that we are a part of it as it is a part of us.
Your moment of Zen.
