Would you consider running up and down these steps much like runners go up and down bleachers during training?
These steps stop at the top, but is it really the top? Are we not required to make our way up and down these steps over and over in order to continue our conditioning?
I try to imagine the kind of conditioning that it must take for the next president to assume the helm of this great Titanic of a nation. As we take on water and sit in frigid waters, we are asked to maintain hope. Where do we get that hope from? The same place that the pilot of the plane that landed in the Hudson did. That pilot must have known the freezing cold waters he would be landing his charges into. Yet he did not give up hope. He took it one step at a time. He had faith that once he landed, there would be rescue boats for the people to climb onto. He had faith that the plane would not fully submerge before 155 people were brought to safety. He had been conditioned to take his set of skills and apply them. However, without faith his skills would have meant nothing.
So as we take on the next 348 days of this year we must condition ourselves to keep our eyes on the moment. We must find our way one step at a time. I must make my way up and down these steps over and over again, knowing that moments of grace surround me everyday, if I will just open my eyes.
2 comments:
Hi Ripgurl...thank you for your support...and its good to meetcha. I love your tagline..entering your life..that is exactly what it has been for me. A life I never knew. And that is not to say so much has changed outside. I still have the same husband, kids, house, job, etc. My day to day life is pretty much the same. It's me and how I look at the world and myself that has changed and is more.
Welcome to blogland. I encourage you not to let Terry's life put you in a tailspin but to take from this the message that this disease and all that goes with it is a life and death struggle and to survive we must do the training as you so eloquently put it by running up and down those steps..over and over. I heard a woman last night talk about her recovery as a given just as brushing our teeth, taking a shower, combing our hair, etc. I wake up and I do those things..because of who I want to be. Oh yes, when we were children, we had to be remined to do these things, sometimes coerced. But eventually, we grew up and wanted them. I told her I would be using that analogy and you are the first I get to use it on! Thanks again.
Hi RipGurl, I found your blog through Kathy Lynn at Gospodi Pomiluj. I like what you have to say and want to add you to my blogroll, if you don't mind.
See you around the blogosphere!
Molls
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