We usually talk about time as if we are collecting it. Another birthday. Another year. Another Monday. Another day added to the story. There is another way to look at it. Today isn’t one more day. It’s one less. That sounds a little uncomfortable at first. Maybe even dark. Yet once you sit with it,Continue reading “The Time We Have”
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Leave It for Tomorrow
Before you go to bed tonight, think about how much energy you spent today on things that never happened. The conversation you replayed ten times. The email you kept checking for. The decision someone else might make. The bill due next month. The awkward thing you said three days ago that everyone else has probablyContinue reading “Leave It for Tomorrow”
I Don’t Want Recovery to Be My Personality
I don’t want my life to feel like a reset button I keep pressing out of exhaustion. I don’t want to move from one thing to the next, always cleaning up emotional debris. Always regrouping. Always telling myself, Okay, just get through this part first. It’s draining to realize how much of your energy goesContinue reading “I Don’t Want Recovery to Be My Personality”
Letting Go of the Uncontrollable
Worry is a persistent companion on life’s journey, often stemming from our desire to control every aspect of our existence. Yet, one of the most profound lessons life teaches us is the art of not worrying about things that lie beyond our control. The idea is beautifully encapsulated in the ancient Stoic philosophy’s concept ofContinue reading “Letting Go of the Uncontrollable”
One Thing I Know….
As we’re struggling with the second wave of Covid-19, our west coast has been hit with a cyclone. I’ve asked myself again, where is God through this all? Last week I had written on how worrying is assuming that God doesn’t know what He is doing A few years ago, I heard this hymn byContinue reading “One Thing I Know….”
Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Most of us, at some point in our life, have sung this song “Don’t worry, be happy”. However with all all that is happening around us today, it is indeed difficult to not worry! We are worried about when this pandemic will end, we are worried about our jobs, we are worried about our families.Continue reading “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
