"With a Conscience" - "Who says you can't go home..."

 

“When you're scared, you stay as you are!”
― Stephen Richards

            I'm not quite sure how this has happened recently, but I am finding peace in doing nothing.  Absolutely nothing...nada...zilch...zero.  There are dishes in the sink.  There is laundry to be washed and there is another load in the dryer.  Who cares?  This is home.  My home and after a very intensive two years, I am recovering.  It's important.  Recovery for anyone is important.  Why I did not realize this until now, is beyond my comprehension Recovery is important for anyone.  

    We need to recover from a number of things without realizing it.  We need to recover from loss.  We need to recover from our legitimate fears of loss, that goes for ourselves included.  The challenges that we confront are many times, challenges we did not see coming nor were we prepared for them.  And...This is why home is the single most important place to process all of the "life earthquakes" that we experience.  When we are confronted with serious issues, it is our home where we develop our ways of coping and processing the fear and yes, sometimes the hurt that come our way.
    I never realized until these past two years, how gratitude for what we have is the single life force that keeps us focused and keeps us determined.  If the laundry is in the dryer, it can stay in the dryer...It's dry!  Life is not about what is observed on the outside.  It's about what the inside dictates.  Kind hearts, compassion and a healthy dose of honesty. do more to motivate our recovery than anything else and that includes an empty dishwasher.   Recovery means we breathe.  Recovery means we rest when we need to rest and if that means putting oneself first...Do it.
    The minute we put our recovery first, we heal.  We look at the world very differently then when we were worrying about vaccuuming.  We become kinder to ourselves.   This is how we mover forward and recover from life's rollercoaster.  We learn we can not be perfect, nor should we be.  We learn acceptance and gratitude for what we have experienced.  We do not have to broadcast what we have have learned.  We just have to show it from the inside out to others who cross our paths.  We simply rest.  We make sure to go home.
...The laundry still is in the dryer...