I host a private Facebook group where people of Faith share crafted prayer, songs, poems, and other heartfelt words and images that are gently intended to support others through a troubled season. During a very brutal season, I learned that I live by hours and minutes not by days and that every day has at least one uplifting hour or pleasurable hour or funny hour or encouraging hour. 🤔 I learned to release the phrase "bad day" from my vocabulary .... there were just some days that had many hours of crushing weight and tears. I learned a great deal about how God feels in those hours. I learned to set boundaries on disabling feelings; and when they started demanding too much of my time, I made them calendar an appointment. Often, I invited my very excellent counselor. She listens with her heart ❤️, reminds me to be extra kind to my body, sees humor in hopeless situations, and reminds me to stay curious and to find the Divine Gem 💎 that is always 🎁 present. I hope most of this is helpful when this Season arrives for you. Your helpful responses are most wecome ....

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When 😨 FEAR's in the body the action won’t start. When doubt fills the system, it closes the heart. 💔 When safety feels missing, 😕 the willpower drops, 🛝 And the steps you want to take 🪜 shake 》《 shake 》《 shake 》《 hit invisible stops. ⏹️ You don’t rise to your goals — you fall to your state. 😔 😟 🙁 😥 😿 Identity 😇 leads you to act or to wait. Emotion takes over when logic steps back 😑 And that’s how you land 💩 in the know–doing gap.

I'm borrowing what might be a prrrr fact idea from another community so on the cat call scheduled for Saturday, I'll join the phone chat for at least the first 15 minutes. Then we can use the rest of the hour if we want just to play in the cat box? Bring your own "scoop" 🤣 ! Will anybody get that joke but me? 🤔 💎

It seems that truly intense experiences set us up for future challenges for "befriending fear"? This is a conversation in progress through which I hope to collect and to share experiences and Divine strategies that move the needle from chaos to curious and from curious to comical. Wouldn't it be great if we could teach our kids and grandkids to laugh at this lifelong monster? I 🤔 it would be worthwhile to bring the conversation into the SKOOL chat call this week! I'll leave the agenda loose, however, in case God has other 💡 ideas. Hope to hear your lovely voices this Friday if you are available 🫂 🤗 val