# A Prayer of the Now channelled on May 15, 2024 while stepping on the plane from SFO to DEN for the ICON 2024 conference --- what is better than a beginning? stepping onto a plane and not knowing what will come, knowing there is surprise waiting for me what is better than the middle? momentum flowing, pieces aligning, inertia all around what is better than an ending? the satisfaction of a day well spent, a job well done, a circle completed what is better than this moment now? always already perfect what is better than being here with you? the ones i love, we who know each other lord i am grateful for this just this just what is arising now the past is gone forever the future never comes you have sent me to hell dismembered me cicadas have swarmed over me and torn me apart you have taken me to high heavens and knit me together into wholeness with golden thread you have sent me worthy enemies wise counselors powerful companions enough hardship to burn away what i am not enough grace to help me become who i am what have you not given me? what advantage has not been mine? what sorrow has been in vain? what victory has escaped me? moments come and go sensations too pleasure and pain and the great dance of this magnificent play but when have you ever left me? for we are continuous indistinguishable send me your legions of demons break me and make me strong send me your choruses of angels play my drums when i come and uplift me send me what is needed i accept it all you have never not walked beside me and i walk with you amen