Hi again Chef
How're things working out for you? Have you heard back about your job yet?
I really understand what you mean about adding hours to your days and weeks just to try to keep your head above water. It has been like that for me too.
And then I got to thinking.. sometimes we get so caught up worrying about the future that is becomes very difficult to pull back into the NOW. There are so many things to worry about and most of them are things that we cannot change or solve through our worrying. But we get so caught in the web of worry that we fail to see that, too.
There are many distractions in our lives, but we fail to see them as distractions. All the gadgets and toys and things that we buy and services that we use and things that we watch to make ourselves feel better, or more important, or wealthier, ultimately fail to make us feel any better because we never address the reason why we feel these needs in the first place. We don't stop to think about the beauty and the wealth that we all have within us - the capacity for love and joy and hope, the strength to carry on through adversity and to help others with their own journeys, the ability to laugh and smile and hug and befriend - that is the value of each person.
We need to remember that each human being is filled with an endless, renewable resource - the human spirit.
And the spirit will thrive in the NOW, and we gain strength from each other without it ever diminishing our own strength.
So to you, today, Chef, I send much love and friendship, and peace and joy, to use in the NOW or whenever you need it most.
Peace
Michelle