Coming to Terms
Living gratefully today, I appreciate the conversations I had with three of my sisters yesterday and the taste of blueberries in my cereal this morning.
"Coming to terms." A gradual accepting. Enduring or tolerating. It is most often used in reference to painful and difficult circumstances, situations, events, people. There is probably always something we are each working to comes to terms with in our own lives.
It applies to me in numerous ways at this present time. Coming to terms with the fact that my sister is dying of metastatic breast cancer, that my mom is progressing into dementia, that I can no longer run like I did when I was 30 or 40. Coming to terms with career complacency as well as cynicism and frustration.
Coming to terms with my own shortcomings, regrets.
It takes hard work to accept, endure, move forward. I am willing to do the work, but I don't always do it the most effectively. I sidetrack and sabotage myself. I impede the process and sometimes create still more that I need to come to terms with.
Faith and trust in my Higher Power/Great Spirit allows me to keep slogging on the tough days and cruising on the good days. Living gratefully affords me the energy to do the work and the lovingkindness to be gentle with myself and others.
There's a flip side to coming to terms though. How do we come to terms with our talents, our gifts, the right kind of power, the purposes we have been put here to carry out?
More on that tomorrow. Just for today, I will bring acceptance and loving tolerance to my interactions with others and myself.
"Coming to terms." A gradual accepting. Enduring or tolerating. It is most often used in reference to painful and difficult circumstances, situations, events, people. There is probably always something we are each working to comes to terms with in our own lives.
It applies to me in numerous ways at this present time. Coming to terms with the fact that my sister is dying of metastatic breast cancer, that my mom is progressing into dementia, that I can no longer run like I did when I was 30 or 40. Coming to terms with career complacency as well as cynicism and frustration.
Coming to terms with my own shortcomings, regrets.
It takes hard work to accept, endure, move forward. I am willing to do the work, but I don't always do it the most effectively. I sidetrack and sabotage myself. I impede the process and sometimes create still more that I need to come to terms with.
Faith and trust in my Higher Power/Great Spirit allows me to keep slogging on the tough days and cruising on the good days. Living gratefully affords me the energy to do the work and the lovingkindness to be gentle with myself and others.
There's a flip side to coming to terms though. How do we come to terms with our talents, our gifts, the right kind of power, the purposes we have been put here to carry out?
More on that tomorrow. Just for today, I will bring acceptance and loving tolerance to my interactions with others and myself.
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