Doggone Issues

I certainly am chatty lately. I have conversations with all of you in my mind all of the time now.

After getting another 3-5 inches of snow last night I decided to go out and shovel. I have wonderful neighbors who always help me with this but I wanted to do it myself today. As I was shoveling I asked myself why it was so important for me to do this today rather than rely on them and I heard myself say that I don’t want to burden people. Since this doggone diagnosis of Alzheimers I’m very aware of not wanting to burden people and as I pondered that, once again I became aware that that has been an issue with me my whole life which is why I’m bringing it up to you. I can honestly say I’ve been worried my whole life about being a burden to my parents and the people in my life. Believe it or not, this little post is not about me but a nudge for you.

Hopefully you can track my train of thought here. In the readings I’ve been doing people always ask what issues they have left to deal with and this morning it became crystal clear that life provides us with opportunities to clear up our issues every day. Pride is a heck of an issue to carry through life or maybe I should say false pride.

My thought to you is to look at your life today and ask yourself if any of your life issues popped up for you today. Were you presented with “an opportunity” to heal any of your issues? This has been a tough year for all of us no matter what political party we belong to. So many of us are struggling to get through this journey, but today it became crystal clear to me to not look at life as a constant challenge, but an opportunity to work out our stuff before we’re out of here. What do you think? Do you still have issues your soul needs to work out and can you see how life is presenting you with opportunities to work them out?

Till the next conversation……………………………..