Moments of Density

There are some moments when I feel like my mass has increased, like gravity has a greater effect on me. This is not a bad thing. It happens at moments when, sometimes for no rational reason, I feel that there is nowhere in the world I would rather be than where I am at that moment. Nothing pulling me somewhere else. Perhaps this is a moment of Shalom, that deep biblical peacefulness from God.

These moments often seek up on me. From around a corner or from under a table jumps a sense of being that is rarely familiar to me. At moments of this thickening I sometimes think that breath itself in unimportant because I have started to inhale the beauty in everyday things: a bird, a song, someone's face as a certain angle, a laugh.

And as easily as it comes, it's gone again. Grace (it must be grace) is too playful to be contained. It spooks easily and darts away back under the table or around the corner leaving no track or trace.