{"id":2425,"date":"2012-08-02T07:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2012-08-02T07:15:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:15:46","slug":"we-will-never-fill-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/08\/02\/we-will-never-fill-up\/","title":{"rendered":"We Will Never Fill Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>California Someplace<\/em>, click photo to view. Reminds that I’m conducting a Landscape Painting Workshop<\/em> tomorrow and Saturday, with still time to sign up here<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

The eye never has enough of seeing,<\/strong>
\nnor the ear its fill of hearing.*<\/strong><\/p>\n

We just returned from travels and our days have been so full since, it’s like we were never gone. It’s a gift, really, a full life. There’s enough to do every day, every hour. We’ll never get it all done, or get it all in.<\/p>\n

At best we come to little levels of \u00a0“enough for now.”<\/p>\n

It’s rare when we climb a mountain that another doesn’t come into sight.<\/p>\n

Before we even returned from our last trip we were talking about our next. Pre-dawn jet-lagged waking from sleep offers opportunity to get\u00a0something else “done.” (Like writing this.)\u00a0Every day has its focus. Then there’s a plethora of other, some left over from the day before, and some coming up but already demanding mental time.<\/p>\n

Besides that, we’re passing by things on every side that are so interesting they could involve another lifetime of attention if we had it.<\/p>\n

Something I’ve long said to myself: “I thank God for eternity when I’m running out of time.”<\/p>\n

In a sense, we’re already connected to the infinite; that’s why we even think like this. We know that there is always more, more, more . . . and we’ll never have it all, see it all, hear it all, think it all.<\/p>\n

Our Ecclesiastical sage cited this as just another vanity, but the same thing can be seen as another gift.<\/p>\n

Once, deep in rich conversation with a good friend, we got interrupted and had to quit. “We’ll finish this later,” he said, then added, “We’ll never be finished.”<\/p>\n

I loved that. And though distance has separated us, when we do meet we pick up right from where we were. We’ll never be finished.<\/p>\n

Friendship, beauty, music, even our “to do” list, these are things that will never be complete. Not completely.<\/p>\n

There’s always another mountain, but we can only climb one at a time. And the one we’re on is likely the one we were hoping to be on when we were on the last one.<\/p>\n

So climb it, love it, and take in what you can.<\/p>\n

Eternity’s coming.<\/p>\n

Meantime, time is gift enough.<\/p>\n

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___________________________<\/p>\n

* Ecclesiastes 1:8b<\/p>\n

Next: A Handfull with Tranquility<\/em>. Coming Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter how much we take in, there’s always more . . . and capacity for more. We’re limited beings, and unlimited at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}