Sometimes the absurdity of life is laughable. We get so caught up in money, emotions, worry, and our own stories that we overlook the extraordinary all around us. Loosen your grip. Laugh a little. Look again.
Category: Journal Entries
thoughts, ponderings, experiences and lessons learned. or, something deep and life-changing.
Outgrowing old patterns isn’t always as simple as deciding to change. Our habits, reactions, distractions, and familiar stories have a way of pulling us back just as we’re beginning to move forward. Recognize the pattern, reclaim your energy, and make room for something better. Be patient, but persistent. Be forgiving with yourself, but disciplined.
Every day gives us another opportunity to participate in life or find another reason to avoid it. We can create, explore, love, learn, and take chances, or retreat into familiar excuses, grievances, and imagined obstacles. The clock keeps moving regardless. What are you doing with the time you’ve been given?
We’ve inherited a story of struggle, competition, separation, and suffering, and generations have learned to defend it. But what if the divide we’ve been maintaining is precisely what’s keeping us from our center? Who will you blame when you recognize it’s all you?
Loving someone isn’t simply about giving them what we think they need. It’s about taking the time to discover how they experience love, what makes them feel safe, understood, appreciated, and free to be themselves. Real intimacy lives in the details, in the things we notice, ask, listen for, and learn to share.