Moments Pass--Even the Good Ones (With Holly Chamberlain)

Moments Pass is one of the three core messages of the aMasongrace Project, the non-profit that Holly created when Mason left us. She tells young people everywhere:

Moments Pass

Please Stay

You Matter

A person entangled in a moment of crisis or grief or fear needs to be reminded that their present circumstance is merely a moment in time and that this moment will pass. Life will not always be what it seems in that moment, and our lives are not defined by any one moment. A person can be arrested for a crime or get divorced or lose a loved one. None of those moments define the sum of their lives.

Likewise, a person can be nominated for a Grammy or win an Olympic Gold Medal or even receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Although those are certainly defining moments, they don’t encapsulate who we are either.

I think Dr. Gary D. Schmidt wrote it best:

“The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing in the world more beautiful and more wonderful in all its evolved forms than two souls who look at each other straight on. And there is nothing more woeful and soul-saddening than when they are parted…everything in the world rejoices in the touch, and everything in the world laments in the losing.”

Moments pass. The good ones. The bad ones. Even the mediocre ones. Never are we perpetually “stuck” in life if we believe this. Never are we subjected to doom if we are in a bad moment if we know that that moment is merely temporary. More importantly, never are we detached from the rest of the world and its suffering and its patent need for compassion and hope if we know that even our good moments are fleeting.

We are more than our mere moments. So much more. And remember…

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Daisy Rain Martin is an author, speaker, advocate, and educator as well as a founding member of The Flying M-Inklings Writing Group. She lives with her husband, Sean-Martin, in the beautiful state of Idaho and teaches English and Literature during the school year to the best 7th graders the world over. Daisy spends her summers writing, speaking, researching, creating, gardening, and canning.

Hope Givers: Hope is Here, is the sequel, of sorts, to her comedic, spiritual memoir, Juxtaposed: Finding Sanctuary on the Outside, which was her publisher's (Christopher Matthews) #1 top selling book in 2012. She has also written a free e-book for anyone who has or is currently being sexually abused called, If It’s Happened to You, which appears in its entirety in Hope Givers. Please follow her weekly blog, SATURDAISIES, which addresses a plethora of current issues including child advocacy, all things hilarious, and matters of the heart. She would love for you to join the Rainy Dais Community by friending her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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