Wherever you are today, it will end.
If you’re in a dark period where the act of existing seems like sandpaper against your soul, it will end. If things are going swimmingly and you achieve the zone in all you do without really trying, it will end.
If things are going poorly, that truth is something to hang onto. If you keep hanging on for just one more day, the storm will inevitably pass. The next sunny day isn’t just possible, it’s inevitable, even if the darkness seems permanent and thick enough to cut with a chainsaw.
If things are going well, the inevitable change is probably a reality you don’t want to face. Things are nice. If the next storm is inevitable, deal with it when it comes, instead of wrecking a perfectly lovely day.
In either case, we retain the power of determining our response. If things are bad, we can choose to get up and do our best, even if that’s a fraction of what it used to be. We can look harder for things to be grateful for. In 2015, as bad as things were, I worked from home, had wonderful support from my wife and family, and a work colleague who made it all bearable. We can adjust our approach to help us get the best out of the situation, as I’m doing now with blogging, journaling, whatever exercise I can manage, and intermittent fasting.
If things are good, we should enjoy what we’ve earned and what God has provided. But we should take the opportunity to strengthen our structure for the next hard time. We can refine and bolster the things that helped us through the hard time, so they’ll be a stronger framework during the storm.
Either way, time forces changes. The current run will end.
And we’ll have to consider whether we used it to position ourselves for what comes next.
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