Thursday, March 22, 2018
Today’s thought from the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
— Robert Frost
If we’ve ever dug in a garden and unearthed an ants’ nest, we can recall their first reaction to our unintended destruction: they do everything possible to save their lives and supplies. The ants scurry around, moving the larvae to an underground room. Exposed contents are then relocated to unseen passages. In a matter of minutes, the ants are again safely underground and ready to resume their daily routines.
How do we react when some catastrophe or unplanned event occurs? Do we want to crawl under a rock or are we as resilient as the ants? Instead of moaning over postponed plans or the loss of something in our lives, we can try to be like the ants and learn how to best work with circumstances that come our way.
Life doesn’t stop for us to lick wounds or add fuel to grievances. Hours pass, we grow older, nature continues. Every event is part of life’s cycle. We can’t run away from anything. We must meet life head-on and adjust to its ebb and flow.
I can look at an unplanned event in my life as part of life’s cycle. I need to trust that life will go on.
You are reading from the book:
Night Light by Amy E. Dean. © 1986, 1992 by Hazelden Foundation
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