Wow...its been a while! It light of all that has been going on - in light of all the things that could wrap me in a sense of despair...I decided to take a different path...I am attempting to see the positive!
Recently I received an email from a friend that detailed the difficulties that a family was enduring with a member who was suffering from a debilitating disease. The story pulled at your heart strings...as do many of the stories that we hear now-a-days.
The story told of a woman who lost in dementia, found peace in music and danced shamelessly to cell phones, store intercoms, etc. in whatever environment in which she might be in when she heard music. Her family, vowed to "never let her dance alone" and I found the last words of the email quite moving.
Regardless of our beliefs, whether we are religious or spiritual of self dependent...we can all know love. Love for ourselves and other and that make it statement so applicable to everyone!
The story told of a woman who lost in dementia, found peace in music and danced shamelessly to cell phones, store intercoms, etc. in whatever environment in which she might be in when she heard music. Her family, vowed to "never let her dance alone" and I found the last words of the email quite moving.
Regardless of our beliefs, whether we are religious or spiritual of self dependent...we can all know love. Love for ourselves and other and that make it statement so applicable to everyone!
"We hold faith that God loves us so, and yet still, still, life hurts.
Sometimes healing comes from accepting what is.
Hope is learning how to dance with it."
I love this sentiment and totally agree with the meaning. I think that no matter who we are....there will be issues, problems, stumbling blocks...that is just life. But, finding and hanging on to the "bliss" of life and letting the other crap go...that is the key. Your personal peace may come from music, or maybe singing, or maybe drawing, or maybe cooking, or maybe kissing....whatever it is that moves you...the key is to remember that every moment is a gift.
I believe that....I really do! It doesn't mean that some of those moments aren't difficult. Actually, most of them are, but I cling to the sense of joy that I get from even the smallest things. The beautiful trees...the warm slurp of my dog's tongue...watching my husband jump and swat at a large grasshopper...the giggling and play of the neighbor boys...the memory of a snowflake falling gently to the ground...the peace of morning just before the sun pokes through....the crackle of a camp fire...the smell of fall - crisp air, and damp leaves...I cling to these things and remember that they are gifts that even out the crappy times.
In the meantime, I send thoughts of peace to the world in general and send daily hopes and wishes that anyone feeling overwhelmed by their current situation receive the peace that they need to be ok...for just that moment.
I send this wish to all.
~A
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