Burdened or Blessed?

 

Thinking about all the things I wanted to do this past year, I thought about everything I would have attempted to do had life been different. I decided my Onward! motto has taken me through so much in times past. When I do look back I kept counting “Little Victories” the Lord allowed me to experience and celebrate. I am so blessed, really. I have told my grandsons for years that you can never have too many people who love you. I now know you can really never have too many people to love. Even people we don’t know.

 

My Aunt Mae’s sign in her bathroom I loved. I read each time we visited her and Uncle Les. The sign read: “The love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay. Love isn’t love till you give it away.” That sign is hanging in My bathroom now. Love is what I think is most important these days. For all mankind. Preaching to the choir is what I am doing right now. I know people who start their week reading this missive are busy, productive people. Or may be they heard the same voice I heard this week that said, “Everyone gets to where they learn that no one can always do what he used to do.”  Mentally or physically. 

 

That’s a problem right now for many of us I think. We’d like to be back where we were when this whole pandemic started. We did what we believed God wanted us to do to take care of our loved ones and ourselves. Now it looks like we may be going backwards. Our trust in God is what will move us Onward! I have another sign I read often. “Your physical space reflects your mind.” Trying to simplify my life is challenging. Decluttering is more than difficult at this age. Deciding what to keep and what to pitch is almost an exercise in futility. I’m taking photos of stuff I’m trying to part with for a memory. But memories pull at a person daily, hourly sometimes. We go back in time whether we want to or not. Each mental recession brings us to a place where we can feel burdened or blessed. I have to pick blessed, because that’s how I feel. I keep thinking of that song, “The Dance.”  At the end of the song we have a choice. Let’s Dance.