I am living in the state of astonishment - what about you?

Every day, almost every moment of every day, I am astonished by what’s going on the world. It’s like someone put a huge spoon into the soup of our lives and is stirring vigorously, mixing everything up. Some days it’s all we can do to hold on and not be thrown out of the soup pot! Yet, I think most of us know that eventually it will all settle down - the stress can come from not being sure how things will end up.

Will we be happy with the outcome once the stirring stops? What if we’re part of a soup we don’t want to be part of? What if the Cook in the sky decides to throw everything out and start over? Then what happens to us? What if the faith we have that ”everything will work out” is wrong? And remember that what you or I might think is “everything working out” is the exact opposite of what someone else thinks is “everything working out?” What to do?

For me, I stay aware of what’s going on, I take whatever action I can, then I let it go and focus on whatever is at hand for me to focus on: my clients, the articles we publish on our website, my color of the day (it’s jade), the two corgis who want to have breakfast right now, the wind blowing outside, and the cool green laser lights my sweetie put up so I can watch them in the morning darkness. There’s so much more to life than the drama going on “out there.”

If each of us focused our attention on loving more, caring for our fellow humans, the mess on the world stage would morph overnight.