Taking the long view, it's easy to see. When you're in the trenches of the day to day frustrations, disappointments, and challenges, it's much harder.
How do we reconcile the two in order to live our best life?
Maybe some of our difficulty comes from an underlying fear of complete collapse. What if everything falls away? Can you have a plan for that? And what if there is no plan that can meet an unforeseen circumstance?
You can't live as if the worst is going to happen. And you can't plan your life as if the worst might be your lot. If the worst is going to happen, then you meet it with courage when it comes.
Until then, you live life as if you expect to have the best life possible.
Beauty in the Night: Meditations in the Dark Time of the Year. I don't know if this will be a series, but if there is one in me, this is what I am drawn to thinking about and writing about.
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