Peter Misselbrook's Blog
May 2 2015 - Of Mindfulness and Beer

We go through life without noticing so many of the things around us, even the things we directly experience: tea; beer; the quality of sunlight and shadow; the dancing of leaves in the breeze; small tokens of affection...

Have you noticed how the head on a glass of beer as it is drained leaves an imprint as fine and intricate as any hand-made lace? This is a lace so fragile that it will soon be lost for ever, kept only in the memory of the one who has wondered at its complex pattern.

"Is that one finished yet?", she said. The glass is empty. The drink is gone. Yes, it's finished. A year of rain and sun; the seed, the green shoot and the golden grain. The summer is finished and dies into autumn. The dust of harvest and the damp sweetness of the malting floor; the days of the brewer's skill... Yes it is finished and gone. And gone too lightly, with too little consideration and even less regret. The glass is empty and now that too is gone along with the fragile beauty of its ephemeral lace.  

So before it goes, savour the moment and taste the living earth and life-giving sun. And in it all, taste and see that the Lord is good.

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Peter Misselbrook