New Horizons

You can’t swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore - William Faulkner

I spent what felt like a lifetime in my garden one afternoon; not necessarily doing anything…just being…just feeling…just existing. Honestly, it had been a while since I allowed myself to feel so present…since I allowed myself to be so still. To be immersed in pure consciousness, filtering out the noise and the humdrum that I had grown so use to. As I sat there, I began to think, if there is one thing I have repeatedly and rather foolishly forgotten to schedule into my life it is to create time where I am not bound to a schedule.

It is a strange phenomenon what being forced to slow down can do to a person and an even stranger feeling when we are allowed to actually reclaim our time. There are moments when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. These are the times when our reality is nothing but pain and to escape that discomfort the mind must leave reality behind. I’m sure right now, we would give anything to wake up from this nightmare…to click our heels three times and be transported to another moment in time. A time where this storm was just a recreation of our synapses…another lesson from our subconscious. En güncel ve yüksek deneme bonusu veren siteler 2023 listesi üzerinden deneme bonusunuzu alın. Bonus veren bahis siteleri için lapalmroyalbeachhotel.com adresimizi ziyaret edin.

But there is more to life than simply increasing our speed. There is more to life than combating the ennui of uncertainty. A lot of us are learning this the hard way. Our old conditioning and habits of distracting ourselves from the feelings of the unknown have rendered us fearful and anxious. But just as much as the blank canvas can be a surface onto which we paint our dread…it can also be the surface on which we dare to paint our dreams. The opposite of having more is having enough...and right now, we are enough. We have within us enough resilience, fortitude and gusto to get us through this.

John C. Maxwell once said “Positive thinking does not always change your circumstances, but it will always change us”. The secret to this change is to focus all of our energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Our lives do not have to be defined by the uninterrupted. No…we do not exist in a state of stasis…frozen in amber like a relic. We dwell in a universe of infinite possibilities, where life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. We forge our own paths; and are not tethered to the limitations and restrictions of predictability.

The ability to endure uncertainty rather than fear is a vital life skill, embrace it and let it be your true north’s point. Feel the feeling, but don’t succumb to the emotion. Witness it…allow it…but remember to release it. This too shall pass, the basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to ours, but to mold our will to his. So, in the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to. Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what is happening around you get inside and weigh you down, be brave enough to lose sight of the shore.

We are all in this together.

Take good care.