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A Life in Process

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Life means process. Always ongoing, never finished, moving forward to engage imagination along the way. A painting might be finished eventually, but not so with people; we keep changing. Movement and change fill our lives with meaning. The challenges along the way help us grow and keep us focused on the process of life. We live in the ever changing progression of every day, week, month, year, decade...; we can never fail because life provides new opportunities for learning to overcome the challenges, to become fully alive. Like good yeast, we embody the natural energy to help the world grow. We are not the finished product, not the bread itself. Bread is finished when it comes from the oven. Then, it cools and is sliced and begins from that moment to grow stale. At best it's a good breakfast toast. When breakfast ends, the toast has been consumed. Perhaps we need to use more color in the painting of our lives. Paint colors can be blended together to make more colors, dee