Faith, Hope and patience

What a crazy time!!!! If you are feeling like I am, the feelings that come to mind are fear of the unknown, sad about changed plans or worried about lost income. There is uncomfortableness with this present reality and there are probably some feelings of boredom and missing loved ones.

When I was over watering my new seedlings, I realized I am also feeling hope, faith and patience. Looking at them trying so hard to get strong and adjust to their growth, I realized that in order to grow stronger, I need to concentrate on those positive feelings.

I am reminding myself that I must have hope or I wouldn’t be over there taking care of what will some day feed us. I must have faith for the same reason and patience, well, I have patience too because as any gardener knows, it takes all three to make a garden grow.

What we concentrate on and how we focus on our circumstances effect how we grow. Those negative emotions I mentioned above are not doing me any good and they are actually hurting me. I am determined to try to find humor and lightness to focus on as much as I can. As I sit here writing this, I realize how fortunate I am to have a house, wonderful company (most of the time) and enough food to keep us fed. I have places for exercise and being safely outside. The opportunities for growth are endless thanks to books and my computer. The downtime can really be a blessing and for now that is enough. I don’t know if I am contributing enough to the unfortunate who are dealing with this virus personally but I am doing my part to stay home and stay healthy. I have faith that this will end and we will have learned what we needed to learn. I have hope that something positive will come out of this and just maybe, we will all feel more connected towards each other. I am practicing patience, as we all are, by being still and inquiring about the lessons we can learn from this.

Mental health and physical health go hand in hand. In Switch On Your Brain, Dr. Caroline Leaf, says this: “Our mind is designed to control the body, of which the brain is a part, not the other way around. Matter does not control us: we control matter through our thinking and choosing. We cannot control the events and circumstances of life but we can control our reactions. In fact, we can control our reactions to anything, and in doing so, we change our brains.”

The more we practice being in the present moment, (the only one we have for sure) the more we can be calm in all circumstances.

I can’t wait to be writing to you at the other end of this but until then, let’s all try to make the best of our common situation, help those we can and stay home and healthy.

Be Well,