suffering

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. I’ve been doing some reflecting and reading on the nature of suffering. There are so many nuances to the way I can choose to think, and how the affects my experience of what’s going on that moment. There are those who’d say that our lives are all a mind-invention, and I sort of get that. I mean, if I weren’t conscious and aware, would I have a life as I now know it? I think not! But I also suspect I’m starting to go in circles at the moment. It’s just that….all things are lessons God would have me learn. There are very few absolute rights or wrongs in the course of daily life. I don’t always know what’s coming at me or why, or what it means. I do know that if I greet it all with unconditional friendliness, neither wallowing nor avoiding, it will be what it’s supposed to be. And on a good day when I can do this more often than not, no matter what happens, there is contentment. Exhaustion sometimes, too. This is hard work! But if I don’t fight it, it doesn’t bite me, at least not as hard. Does any of this make any sense? Does to me. Have a lovely day my lovely ones!

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