Give me faith to believe...

Every moment I have a choice to let fear overtake me or to stop, breathe and refocus on what’s Good. Some days I can feel bombarded by really hard aspects of being alive. I can see only cruelty and abuse of power again and again. If I am not careful, mindful, it can become a quicksand for me.

Again and again, I pray, to see the abundance and light around me. When I’m in the grocery store line, sitting in the waiting room at a doctor’s office, at a stop sign— these are all moments when I try to remember to stop, breathe, and refocus on what is Good.

When I can shift my attention to something better, I start to feel better. When I feel better, I am able to help myself and others better. It’s a tiny, tiny shift. Possibly imperceptible to anyone standing next to me in line at the grocery store or sitting beside me at a doctor’s office. 

But it is a real change within me. I take a few breaths, deep breaths and I ask for help with my faith, to help me be stronger than whatever it is that is dominating my sense of peace, well-being, abundance, joy. 

I am not alone— ever. 

We are not alone ever. 

You are never alone. 

To recall this one, important fact can change everything. 

I am in partnership with the Divine. You are in partnership with the Divine. This Eternal Love and relationship is always ongoing and available to each one of us at all times. 

And I need is help remembering this. 

I need help remembering that the Divine is a Living Force of Love and Generosity. Profound generosity. It may sound ridiculous to say, but sometimes I feel like God lived and existed in the past. 

This is why I try to take pauses throughout my day, prayer breaks to reconnect, recenter, and re-focus on a Living, Loving God who is here, right now for me, for you, for us. 

Sometimes like a photographer, I can zoom out and see a bigger picture, in the moment, or in the timeline of my life, or even human life on earth, and whatever it is that is getting me down gets smaller, and I understand and see Divine Love always was, always is and always will be.

This shift can feel like a hug. A hug throughout time. 

Other times, like a photographer, I can zoom in and see the miraculous details of a flower or a piece of fruit.

I was having a challenging day yesterday and I was holding a pomegranate I had purchased at the grocery store. Could I find wonder in this fruit? In the color? In all the seeds? In the sun and rain and soil and bees and people who all worked together in a miraculous way to allow me to stand there with a beautiful piece of fruit in my hands? 

There is music all around us. There is dance in life. When I’m afraid, I freeze, hold my breath, miss the beauty and the song. 

There is always a Divine Love Song calling to us, being sung to us. May I hear it, make time to stop and listen, allow myself to be wooed with this precious gift of life.

Again and again, throughout each day, especially the challenging ones, I try to remember to stop and connect with the Eternal, Always-Here Love… and dance.

With love and wishing you Peace, 

Kathleen