“So, persevere through life. It’s a beautiful journey.”

The realization that all things change is a fact of life that often continues to surprise us. We get comfortable, become accustomed to the concentric circles moving around us, perceive our lives to be stable and simply forget that life can change in a moment. Then we find ourselves experiencing an “event” or “something” that shifts our lived reality into a place of uncertainty because “something” has changed, whatever that “something” may be (health status, relationships, death, world events, loss of job, family circumstances, etc.).

This kind of quicksand (though it’s not always quick) can move us into a state of unsettledness, anxiety, fear, a feeling of being overwhelmed, a feeling of not being able to deal with life. How many of us feel this way or have felt this way? I think we all can raise our hands here. Are we meant to constantly move in and out of security and lack of safety? …

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