acceptance and freedom to choose what we want and need to do
to take care of ourselves with that person.
We can become free of the patterns of the past.
We are recovering.
Progress is the goal.
~ The Language of Letting Go,
Daily Meditations on Codependency
by Melody Beattie
Last evening I received an email message from our local YMCA with a subject line: Action Needed! Ask state lawmakers to reopen your Y!
This morning in an online news article Dr. Fauci warns of “early signs” that an outbreak could be brewing in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. Right now, 93%, or 89 of Tennessee’s 95 counties, have a transmission rate “above the threshold.”
Related to the coronavirus, most everyone would agree that progress is the goal. Obviously, however, opinions differ regarding in which direction progress lays.
A friend heard on the news this morning that risk of exposure in our area is currently 4%. Her comment was that the low percentage may give people the feeling that not complying with guidelines (primarily wearing masks and maintaining safe distancing) is safe.
I said, “If you want to untangle a knotted string, it is crucial to know which end of the string you are holding.”
Four percent is a direct result of the strict guidelines that have been in place. The number does not mean, “Oh, we don’t have much Covid, so lets throw a big party to celebrate.” Rather, what it really means is, “Thankfully, our actions are making a difference, and lives are being saved. We can get through this together.”
I took two photos this morning. One is a stink bug on my kitchen window; the other a moth on my office window.
Seeing the delicate moth generated an inner smile; the big fat stink bug, repulsion.
I understand businesses wanting to reopen, but is reopening an indoor exercise facility wise? Is sending out an email message urging members to pressure lawmakers to allow them to reopen a responsible act?
This morning as I notice my inner preferences, I open email to the quotation from Abraham Hicks:
If you will simply imagine your life as you want it to be, all cooperative components will be summoned. And even more important, all components that are summoned will cooperate. It is Law. The experience that you have with others is about what you evoke from them.
Excerpted from The Vortex on 8/31/09
Our Love,
Esther
(and Abraham and Jerry)
I imagine Tennessee learning from Florida. I imagine Y members writing to the Y expressing the willingness to be patient. I imagine the stinky and the delicate co-existing in the balance of nature. I imagine acceptance and freedom to choose what we want and need to do to take care of ourselves…. I imagine all beings coming to the end of suffering.