Sucking the Marrow

Oprah has "Aha " moments, I have "waves of peace" moments, and Henry David Thoreau and Kelle Hamptom (my favorite blogger) has "sucking the marrow" moments. 

"I went the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life, and not to come to the end of my life, and discover that I had not lived." 

~ Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes I have to remind myself that we are all on this earth for only a moment. In the grand scheme of things, our years here are minute on the scale of time. And while it is easy for me to get sucked into the stresses of everyday life, I’d much rather prefer to "suck the marrow" out of life.  But how?  Most of us go about our lives not ever knowing the art of the “suck”. Is it something we are born with? Is it a learned tool? Or is it simply recognizing the life we have been given, embracing it, and even more …loving it!?

Some would look at my material possessions and think - or perhaps judge - my life as “normal”; maybe even boring. I live in a townhouse, my husband and I make an average salary, we buy used cars, we budget, we get excited when we can go to sleep before ten and sleep in past seven. By many people’s standards I lead a very middling life. Yet, by my standards I feel I have been dealt the Royal Flush of lives.

And I am human. So of course the idea of losing loved ones, not having enough money, and failing at being a parent or a wife can find a way to seep past my skin and into the worry cells of my heart. But there are days like today where I have been given the gift of knowing that the very presence of my daughter in my life for the last one year, 2 months, four weeks and two days has given me more desire to…well…suck the marrow.

With Love,

Stacy