Keep Swimming

Today I am grateful for coffee, bacon, and eggs. Caffeine and protein to start the day.

It's been a real grind this week in many ways. I bet it has been for you too. These are not easy times. I am thinking especially though of people who are really struggling this week . . . with their own physical,  mental, emotional, and spiritual health challenges. The loss of an adult child, a devastating diagnosis in a sibling, the pull of addiction, relatives dying of COVID, emergency surgery; the list goes on. 

Add on COVID COVID COVID and the social, economic, and political strain it is putting on our communities, nation, world. 

Every day, there are many of us who would rather not get out of bed, and too many who cannot get out of bed, even if they want to. It all threatens to pull us under at times. 

Keep swimming, but take time to stop at your version of an island sanctuary before heading out again,  grab the life jacket someone throws your way, or be the one extending a helping hand to get someone in the boat for a break.  

Keep swimming toward a vaccine, a new year. Keep swimming knowing the new generation of young people is poised to take on the challenges of this world, and they already are. 

Keep swimming. It worked for Dory in Finding Nemo. It will work for us too.