Life

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”

                                            Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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It never seems to get better

The political polls (or even the political reality)

The pain

Life

I find that there far too many nights

My “busy brain” has me replaying the day

With

Regret

And far too many mornings when I look forward to the day

Anxious

It is always one damn thing after another!

But I have learned

Slowly, begrudgingly at times

That while life does not getter “better”

My relationship to life

And affliction and stress

Can change

For I have resources

Inside

That are greater than I dare imagine

All strength

All hope

All compassion

All love

For in me

Imperfect vessel

is Sacred

call it what you will

Sacred Presence

Holy Spirit

And it is in those moments

Paradoxically

When things are most difficult

That I find myself going there

To that place

Where Sacred dwells

And finding strength

I often sweat the small stuff

But when life happens

God

Spirit

Sacred

Love

Is there