Treatment by Ed Preston. RScP
Prelude
Wow! I just returned home from a weekend in Rehoboth Beach, DE, for their Independent Film Festival. My wife and I have been there for this event for about 13 of the last 14 years. We have a 3 hr drive there, and stay with a close friend, Dorothy, who lives there and leads a Study Group there. In two days, we saw 5 wonderful movies, and spent great times with our friend at movies, talking and sipping wine, and attending her Study Group meeting this morning. So, I returned blissed-out from this ritual (as it has become so over the years) and I have been amazed at how everything for the whole weekend fell synchronistically into place, including the drive home, westward, just after the sun set. So, now I also have a whole 2 1/2 hours to write my treatment for today.
Treatment
I now just pause and come into my place of peace. I accept the Mystery of Time. I find my infinite self and then laugh with Einstein who claimed that “time is just what keeps one d–m thing after another from becoming every d–m thing at once.” In this moment, I simply laugh inside as I remember that. And I, again, become quiet and pause in my peace. I accept that “pause” has no meaning without time. I accept that “infinite” has no meaning without time. I accept time into the Mystery that I call God. I recognize the divine presence of Time in my life. I celebrate Time in this moment.
I accept a theme of my life which has been “go with the flow”. The “flow” is what happens in my Divine Time. I become One with the Time of my Divine space. I become One with the Flow, with the Time of my life. As we unite and become One, I become Infinite as well as Momentary. I am a Divine paradox of momentary and infinite. I accept both, as I call Spirit to offer me another “both and” celebration, releasing “either or” again and again and again, in time.
In this moment, I simply realize that time is real. I accept and know that my Time is both finite and infinite. It is part of the Divine Paradox of Reality which I call both Mystery and God. I know that “synchronicity” is an aspect of the Divine that is available to all of those who read this and celebrate time with me Now in this moment of synchronicity. We are One, joined in this moment by these words that we share. “Time” is also a word, and we share this time Now, together in Time. We are One in Spirit, in Time, in the Mystery.
I am so grateful for Time and for all that I have experienced in the last two days of Time. I say “Thank you, God.” for the time I have had with friends and with life in film and in Rehoboth Beach. I share that gratitude with all who read this, where-ever, and when-ever they are, knowing we all come together in the Moment of Time, right NOW. We are One in our gratitude for the Time we have, both together and alone. “Together” and “Alone” is another paradox of Divine existence and Mystery that we celebrate both together and alone. We are One.
I now release all these strange words into the Law, knowing It will find and celebrate a new meaning for all my words. Some I will know and celebrate as my life, and some I will celebrate as my Mystery, my God. I release and accept the flow of time as another paradox of life – release and accept. We all do both-and. Now.
And so it is, Now and Then and Whenever. Amen.
Treatment for November 9, 2014