Finding joy in Florence last year. The pandemic has forced many changes upon us that are entirely beyond our control. But it has also offered us choices about ways we want to spend our days, and how we want to feel about our life right now. I believe I can choose to be happy or sad, productive or lethargic, meaningful or purposeless, loving or fearful. I can say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to life at this very moment.
One choice I have made is to take a hiatus from the news. I haven’t turned it on at all, at least in the past two days, and I don’t plan to start up again any time soon. What a difference this has already made in my daily, emotional and spiritual life.
Daily life: I have more time to do what please me and brings me joy and fulfillment. Whether I am working on or completing a project, or just attending to life’s daily tasks, I feel a grace-filled satisfaction that I’ve rarely experience before.
Emotional life: I am living with more joy and less anger. When I wake up in the night I can fall back to sleep!
Spiritual life: My faith is growing and strengthening. Any fear that the news might ignite in me is being replaced by love. I have time to BE.
What I’ve written sound pretty rosy; it’s not as perfect as I make it out to be —I still get angry, become fearful, waste time…. but I know I’m heading in the right direction.
One choice I have made is to take a hiatus from the news. I haven’t turned it on at all, at least in the past two days, and I don’t plan to start up again any time soon. What a difference this has already made in my daily, emotional and spiritual life.
Daily life: I have more time to do what please me and brings me joy and fulfillment. Whether I am working on or completing a project, or just attending to life’s daily tasks, I feel a grace-filled satisfaction that I’ve rarely experience before.
Emotional life: I am living with more joy and less anger. When I wake up in the night I can fall back to sleep!
Spiritual life: My faith is growing and strengthening. Any fear that the news might ignite in me is being replaced by love. I have time to BE.
What I’ve written sound pretty rosy; it’s not as perfect as I make it out to be —I still get angry, become fearful, waste time…. but I know I’m heading in the right direction.