None of us have a crystal ball. Life is uncharted waters for most of us. We don’t know what we’re doing. Some of us have a strategy to go through crisis, some of us wing it. Both types are right because both types are hurting and doing what’s right for them. To the overorganized overachiever structure driven process crazed individual and to you who are unorganized unfocused and ready to just go do anything. Give yourselves a break and go with it. Sanity is underrated today and I know I’m giving myself a break. May not be perfect but I’m going with it. 

Confront your past trauma, whether it’s a person, an experience, a mental mind game. Confront it because it’s the start of your healing. You may cry, scream, breakdown but you must do it. A close relative used to harangue me in my youth and it caused physiological tremors and clenching of teeth, even in my adult years to the point of not being able to communicate in groups over two people and up. I fought through the trauma, through the pain. I confronted that person and continue to do so by voicing my emotions and opinions and although I the clenching of teeth has diminished its still there, however, I’m moving past the trauma past the pain. It’s important for me to complete my healing to wholeness.

All of us are connected by a single rope, a thread, some hope. This rope like the old phone lines or the highways that are endless connect us to each other so that if one person pulls another person gives so that we rely on each other for strength with God as the great anchor. We are not like a game of tug of war where we constantly fight each other but we pull each other higher, we gather, we give, but no one lets go because in this world we are all connected and we leave no one behind. Now hold on tight to that rope, it’s all we have to keep us going and growing… and that’s each other.