It’s easy to keep the faith when times are good. When times are tough, however, when uncertainty reigns, it’s not so simple, is it? …not quite so easy.
Staying positive and knowing all will unfold as it’s meant to; learning the lessons set before us and rolling with the waves of stormy seas, is what must be done. Fighting the tide, struggling against the current, bring exhaustion, even death, for none of us are stronger than the patterns of life.
Losing ones self in the overwhelming onslaught of change is the danger. Forgetting who we are and reacting in desperation reduce us to nothing more than rats on a sinking ship.
Step back and breathe. Look at the big picture, minimize the risks as best you can, and capitalize on the opportunities. Then just roll with the ebb and flow of the tide.
Control is an illusion. Our lives can be set up in ways that increase certain probabilities, but we control nothing. Obsessing over things completely out of our control is at best a waste of time, at worst a stress inducing killer of both health and sanity.
I am not omniscient, omnipotent, nor infallible. I am not the proverbial monk meditating in silence on a hilltop. I am a real person, like you, who suffers and struggles as everyone else. I work hard to practice what I preach, and not always successfully. Still, I try.
Now give us a kiss, a smile, a laugh, and let’s see what happens.
S. Conde
I say – wise words. ‘Control’ or the need to be in control seems to rule our lives sadly. Reminds me of patients who may not fear the operation but specifically fear anesthesia – as they say, they then are ‘not in control’. The most and least we can do is do what we can, be kind and compassionate, and trust in the process.
Yours may be far wiser than mine. I often fear the anesthesia more than the operation.
well, like I said … but hopefully this need not happen to you?
Hopefully not, no. oxo
I say: it was good to read this again thank you. Here’s a smile for you. 🙂 🙂 and a freshly plucked flower. For you …
Smiles, love, sunshine and flowers to you too. 🙂 oxo