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.
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
We went shopping in Walmart today. We accidently rang up the same item twice at the do-it-yourself scanner. Didn't see it until after it was paid for. The assistant told us to go to Customer Service. Usually I would get pretty upset at that. I was amazingly calm and patiently waited in the long line while the only person working in that dept. waited on people. This certainly wasn't a catastrophe or anything all that bad. It was unplanned, however, and just one of those things which would get on my nerves and perhaps make the rest of the day not so great in my mind.
This comes from learning 'acceptance' ... it took me forever to learn this ... to accept that I goofed and caused myself more 'time' than usual or to simply figure that these things happen, my fault or not ... 'acceptance' goes a long way toward being 'calmer' in such situations ... 'Traffic' is especially tough for me to accept, cause I have ZERO control over it ... I've learned to take deep breaths and say the 'Serenity Prayer' a lot more ... LOL ...
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
