This post is about the part of life that is other than one’s spiritual side.
Yesterday a friend called in tears, not over herself, but over someone younger she cared deeply about, before she hung up I had her laughing. Could I do that all the time? No!
Yes, what I said was ‘perfect’ (and a fluke, I might add). But it was not my words really, but this: She was receptive to feeling better, she was receptive to allowing her heart a moment’s peace.That, y’all is my “Only the Good” thought for the week.
And this, y’all, is the point. There are days our emotions are running away with us – many of those days we choose to feel them, allow them to wrap around us in comfort or nearly squash the life out of us. And honestly, there are times we need that release, both extremes. But, we also have to accept responsibility to turn our day around — if only moments at a time — to get on to daily living. And to allow that leap from one emotion to another or on to business at hand, we have to be receptive.
I feel the key to balancing our daily lives is really a simple tripod, a word I detest because it is so popular in sales hype, “Kick the third leg out of their argument (tripod) to not buy.” Those that know me, know I avoid sales hype.
But, shoving that thought aside, a tripod is also sturdy, that which steadies.
The willingness “get the business taken care of, too,” in between emotional highs and lows, is the third leg of the tripod that both steadies and grounds us. And to that we darn well have to be receptive, because emotions are powerful and love to run our lives for us.
This past year in my extended world, I have seen three examples of people receptive to shoving one emotion aside for another and to getting on with business — in spite of how hard it had to have been: my friend yesterday whose younger generation is following the wrong path; J’s mom and dad who lost him and he was our son’s best friend; C, who lost her mom; and, today, Shelly Kneupper Tucker, who lost her niece. Shelly and her Muse discussed/fought on grief vs. getting on to business today in her Only the Good Friday Post. It is a good read.
All those mentioned above hung in there, allowed their emotions to flow, but checked them, at times, by being receptive to their other needs. I’m proud of them all for setting an example for us.
Come to think of it, I did it once or twice myself. And I am one heck of a bundle of emotions normally. You can do it, too. Hold on to that thought. You can do it, and doing it is not wrong, it is right and it is necessary for humanity to survive – and you are part of humanity.
I found our grief useful to the world… aka this is how I have coped at times: Life Tears
