What The Moon Says

Breathe Your Next Breath As If God Is Watching

Go ahead! Put down your well-earned hesitation. Leave all you do not need at the lonely shore. Let my moonlight ease your sorrowful heart. Claim what your bones desire. Bow deeply in the dark. Live your destiny. Eat and dance in the shadow of your ancestors. Heal your heart. Breathe your next breath as if God is watching. Place a flower at the ash pile of your memories. Burn a candle for all you do not need. Think with your feral imagination. Bend and shout, welcome home to your ghosts. Embrace your aching anger. Blow a kind kiss to your greatest fears. Dance a slow, sensual dance with your grief. Create magic and transform your worry into compassion. Befriend your cruelest thought. Stand here now. Look in the mirror and stare into the eyes of your beloved. Love this moment with all your being. Know in this moment you are love. Share a warm cup of tea with your bubbling doubt. Look up and see hope. Look out and see possibility. Look down and feel Mother Earth holding you. Look in and know you are her. Today, the old you will die. Time is a trickster. The old you never existed. Every breath taken is a birth and a death. Try not to breathe and see what happens. Sky chuckles and insists we will all die because we must. This entire world is an illusion, and our separate sense of self is too. Still with all this dying, all things lead home to love. Somewhere in your heart, you know these words are true. Of course, truth doesn’t exist. The mind resists, but your heart knows what it knows. So, smile for no reason. See holiness in the eyes of strangers. Celebrate your dependence on others. There are no others. Sing when the situation calls for it. Meet your enemy with compassion. Spend time playing with friends. Warm your fiercest fears into a savory stew and enjoy. Invite the impossible. Bask in the incomprehensible. Practice kindness when you feel lonely and alienated. Express your anger with a whistle and a strut. Cultivate curiosity. When you don’t know what to say, listen. Let the nowness of your next breath swallow you whole. Enjoy the divine symphony that is your beating heart. Honor all that you do not know. Take each step with gratefulness for Mother Earth. Let the cosmic breath blow you away. Welcome the divine to have her way with you. Bark with dogs. Meow with cats. Venerate ants. Recite sweet poems to your deepest worries. Feel your ancestors moving your bones. Play catch with your most coveted ideas. Place peace as pebbles on your path. Let gratitude be your wisdom guide. Howl at me and dance in my luminous light. Shower your vulnerabilities with happiness and joy. Find your kindest self in the suffering of others. See the insight in the teachings you call nonsense. Enjoy the stories flowing through your blood. Whisper love songs to everyone you meet. Breathe your next breath as if God is watching.