Barbara Brown Taylor contemplates, "what is saving her life now," in her book An Altar in the World. Which raised the question for me, of course. What is saving my life now?
The story my parents tell comes to mind. When they were in college, at the University of Colorado, they went out for dinner with friends. They traveled quite a ways from Boulder. The significance of the evening, in retrospect, was the weather. In fact, the blizzard that followed dessert was so threatening, one fellow drove while the other walked a pace in front of the car, making sure they stayed on the pavement of the mountainous highway.
What is saving my life now is one foot in front of the other. With little inclination to look back or worry about the next day, I can engineer my life quite well, staying smack-dab in the moment. What does your life depend on today?
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