Dear Warrior Souls,
I love you. These are tough times for our human family.
Are you remembering that we are in the middle of unprecedented tough times and giving yourselves the appropriate mercy to go along with that?
I often have to remind myself that difficult things are probably going to feel difficult no matter how strong we have grown to be. I think we get too much pressure to feel good all the time and we sometimes think that if we are doing things right and having enough faith, things shouldn't feel difficult and things shouldn't hurt the way they do.
These times are tear-jerkingly devastating. Whether you're smack in the middle of any number of the very real tragedies happening right now, or you're standing next to your neighbor who is, there is no way to gloss over these devastating times. We get so much confusing and conflicting information in the middle of so much hard stuff. We are reckoning as a human family with very real issues that we have to figure out, and in complicated ways . . . we've got to stick with it to make sure we are taking good care of each other. We have to remember to love each other even if we don't see things exactly the same way. And...how could we when we all have different viewing points? We are all standing somewhere different, seeing what we see from where we are standing. No one sees exactly the same things because that would be nearly impossible.
It is so complicated.
So I think it's okay if we cry a lot and we aren't our chipper selves all the time. There is a lot to grieve right now. There is a lot to look at that is very hard to look at. There is a lot to cope with that is very hard to cope with. There is a lot to sort through and a lot to let go of. There is SO MUCH rebuilding that's going to have to be done, but first we have to decide how we want it built this go round.
So.....I hope you won't pressure yourself to feel great all the time. And I also hope you'll find and create all the joy you can in whatever little pockets of this era that joy will fit.
But when joy can't be found, I think sometimes feeling at peace is the best we can do when we are climbing steep trails...and the road has been long...and there is still so much further to go...and what we had to leave behind is still on fire or maybe it's already a pile of ash...or maybe it's still beautiful and full of life but we had to leave it behind anyway for any number of reasons.
I have to remind myself that when life feels hard, it's not because I'm doing it wrong....it's because I am doing hard things.
Difficult things still feel difficult, no matter how much we grow. We might have better perspective, more patience, more skills ... but tragedies are going to feel tragic, loss is going to feel like loss, learning hard new things is going to be hard, facing the depth of our shadows is going to feel dark.
I don't know much these days except what I know in each moment. And it might be different than what you know. And what I know is going to change because we learn more every day. What you know is going to change. WE GET TO CHANGE. WE GET TO BE NEW. WE GET TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW - maybe we wouldn't have signed up for it, given the chance...but here we are.......watching life as we knew it say HEY SEE YA LATER.....and life as we are being called to create it is holding its hand down to us from the top of that steep trail, saying....TRUST ME, YOU CAN DO THIS.That is what I know at this moment. THAT YOU CAN MAKE IT UP THIS STEEP TRAIL. You are strong enough. You get to cry all you want. You get to rest when you need to. YOU GET TO BE NEW every morning.
I love you and I believe in us.
We can do this, but we gotta do it together. That is hard in so many ways.....but we are gonna figure it out, I just know it. For now...just please don't give up, okay? I promise I won't give up and I am asking you to not give up either.
I love you so very much,
melody
I love you. These are tough times for our human family.
Are you remembering that we are in the middle of unprecedented tough times and giving yourselves the appropriate mercy to go along with that?
I often have to remind myself that difficult things are probably going to feel difficult no matter how strong we have grown to be. I think we get too much pressure to feel good all the time and we sometimes think that if we are doing things right and having enough faith, things shouldn't feel difficult and things shouldn't hurt the way they do.
These times are tear-jerkingly devastating. Whether you're smack in the middle of any number of the very real tragedies happening right now, or you're standing next to your neighbor who is, there is no way to gloss over these devastating times. We get so much confusing and conflicting information in the middle of so much hard stuff. We are reckoning as a human family with very real issues that we have to figure out, and in complicated ways . . . we've got to stick with it to make sure we are taking good care of each other. We have to remember to love each other even if we don't see things exactly the same way. And...how could we when we all have different viewing points? We are all standing somewhere different, seeing what we see from where we are standing. No one sees exactly the same things because that would be nearly impossible.
It is so complicated.
So I think it's okay if we cry a lot and we aren't our chipper selves all the time. There is a lot to grieve right now. There is a lot to look at that is very hard to look at. There is a lot to cope with that is very hard to cope with. There is a lot to sort through and a lot to let go of. There is SO MUCH rebuilding that's going to have to be done, but first we have to decide how we want it built this go round.
So.....I hope you won't pressure yourself to feel great all the time. And I also hope you'll find and create all the joy you can in whatever little pockets of this era that joy will fit.
But when joy can't be found, I think sometimes feeling at peace is the best we can do when we are climbing steep trails...and the road has been long...and there is still so much further to go...and what we had to leave behind is still on fire or maybe it's already a pile of ash...or maybe it's still beautiful and full of life but we had to leave it behind anyway for any number of reasons.
I have to remind myself that when life feels hard, it's not because I'm doing it wrong....it's because I am doing hard things.
Difficult things still feel difficult, no matter how much we grow. We might have better perspective, more patience, more skills ... but tragedies are going to feel tragic, loss is going to feel like loss, learning hard new things is going to be hard, facing the depth of our shadows is going to feel dark.
I don't know much these days except what I know in each moment. And it might be different than what you know. And what I know is going to change because we learn more every day. What you know is going to change. WE GET TO CHANGE. WE GET TO BE NEW. WE GET TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW - maybe we wouldn't have signed up for it, given the chance...but here we are.......watching life as we knew it say HEY SEE YA LATER.....and life as we are being called to create it is holding its hand down to us from the top of that steep trail, saying....TRUST ME, YOU CAN DO THIS.That is what I know at this moment. THAT YOU CAN MAKE IT UP THIS STEEP TRAIL. You are strong enough. You get to cry all you want. You get to rest when you need to. YOU GET TO BE NEW every morning.
I love you and I believe in us.
We can do this, but we gotta do it together. That is hard in so many ways.....but we are gonna figure it out, I just know it. For now...just please don't give up, okay? I promise I won't give up and I am asking you to not give up either.
I love you so very much,
melody
