Gratitude 🙏 Cafe:

Again & Again! Encore & Encore!

Today I would like to express my Gratitude for the sheer gift of having wonderful things in Life, and have them repeatedly.

Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind regarding ‘Again’ is its French equivalent Encore. For example when an audience really appreciates a live performance in a theatre, opera house or concert hall . With a standing ovation, clapping and cheering they shout: Encore, Encore!!Again, Again!!

In Life when something is really great, we want more of it… we want it Again! We want it preferably right now and right where we are! In fact subconsciously we would like to have it all the time!

That`s human nature and I strongly suspect animal nature too.

In a greater context, all Life on Earth functions exactly the same way: What works well we do Again and keep repeating it Again and Again.

What had worked well yesterday, we will repeat today. What works well today, we will repeat Again tomorrow.

On the other hand, what proves to be a disaster we do well not to repeat. For too many disasters/negatives repeated Again and Again will get us into trouble. Not just personally but collectively speaking too.

All of us humans, animals and plants having survived until now are the results of such long chains of our old successes; our DNAs lined up, having been fine tuned for thousands of years through trial and error, of winning and losing.

Its always the winners that write Life`s DNA.

Every waking morning during our entire lives, we start to live afresh, anew, repeated, Again. Each new morning we find ourselves with a fresh set of cards in our hands. There are new & exciting possibilities built into every new day, Again & Again!

Centenarians on their 100th birthday therefore would`ve had 36 499 Agains! Now that is a lot of new cards and potential opportunities!

While waking up repeatedly each morning Again & Again is obviously very important, there are lots of other things we also keep repeating. Breathing in and out for a start. Our very heartbeats are a long chain of Agains or menial things like the blinking of our eyes. All our habits are repetitious. Eating/drinking/swallowing/digesting our foods happen on such repeat-cycle principals too. Walking, working, speaking, writing, sleeping, waking etc. Everything within us as well as around us keep repeating their Life sustaining functions for their survival. That is nature`s way.

As such, Again is not just once more, but rather Again & Again.

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Spiritually speaking it`s the same as well ; if you are Born Again, it`s not just once. You will be born Again & Again without end!

For Again is endless! Again is Forever!

On a cosmic scale, I cannot imagine an end to the grandeur of this mind blowing, heart melting celestial show we are observing around us.

I feel its just too good to end !

On the other hand, if it`ll have to end, I envisage there`ll be a new and Divine Encore for a New Creation, for an entirely new Universe.

A new and even more mind-blowingly complex Cosmos will be birthed that will include all the `winning cards` from all the previous ones.

If so, I am optimistic it will include all Earthly forms of Life too.

For regardless of how much we`ve messed up this world, there are far more positives about this humanity of ours than there are negatives.

We are worth an Encore in fact many, many more…would you agree?

In my Spirit, I can hear Encore & Encore echoing endlessly throughout the entire Universe.

Indeed God had made a wonderful and purposeful Universe for us all.

It`s our unique cosmic home, infused with Agape Love that binds it all, binds us all together.

How blessed we are being cosmic `Brothers and Sisters` !

For that is exactly what we are with all of Life, with all of matter on Earth and beyond!

I wonder if we know it?