With the recent mandatory stay-at-home order, life-as-usual jumped the tracks. Suddenly the framework of routine, of habit, of busy activities was shaken, if not completely shattered. Time slowed and blurred in the same moment.
The loss of “usual” during this time has created a space for the courageous to assess what had composed the usual, and if it was actually worth pursuing once the world began spinning again. There is no longer the excuse of not enough time to stop and consider, because we were given a pause to catch our breath and decide if we liked the air we had chosen to breathe.
That which had tilted and driven and muffled and turned the direction of thoughts and purposes away from what had once been clear and pristine now has the possibility of being struck off and discarded, like excess tonnage that burdened our hearts and lives.
This is an opportunity to carefully, thoughtfully, objectively observe the life choices that are driving our days and to decide if and how we want to bring change and balance.
This is the chance to right our previous bendings toward things lesser, cluttering, or just wrong, the small things we secretly mourned we could never change.
We have been blessed with this time to sift and evaluate and remember what it is we want our days to mean, what legacy we yearn to create. This is often somber work, but joyful and freeing, too. This effort is necessary to move ahead with a clearer purpose and a truer, stronger heart.
It is our time to right and thereby rewrite the story of this chapter of our lives. Here’s to making it worth reading.