Week 70 - Sitting in the Power

Big Love

I made the decision to take the word “frustrated” out of my language.

Frustrated feels hopeless, and I don’t want to feel hopeless in my inside or outside world. Hope helps me feel better. Hope gives me a reason to wake up in the morning, even on mornings when I have had very little sleep. Hope holds creativity and the good smell of something I just baked, and finding order in a chaotic room.

Instead, I am using the word “challenged.” To be challenged means I will figure out a way to get around the obstacle in my path. Even if I must change direction, change my mind, rethink and revise. But whatever is challenging me, I will move through it. I have been problem-solving and moving around mountains all my life.

Most of us are excellent problem solvers. We have to be. We have lived and continue to live through challenging situations. Life is not easy. The most important aspect of survival is to remember to come back to love.

A Year of Big Love by Danna Faulds

Maybe 2026 is the year

scientists discover that

dark energy is really love.

It's the invisible force

that balances equations

and keeps the cosmos

on course. Wouldn't that

be a news flash? At the

center of pretty much

everything is love --

not personal love, but big

love, of the divine variety,

unconditional and refined.

I can't speak to the physics

behind it, but it makes

intuitive sense to me

that love is the glue

that holds the universe

together, the intangible

something without which

every theory falls apart.

And the wild thing is,

we're surrounded by

big love on all sides,

and filled to the brim

with it. But it requires

us to slow down, open

to its unexpected power,

and receive it willingly.

So even if the scientists

don't figure it out, we can

know love right now --

it just takes a choice to

recognize what's already

here inside. Love, the eternal

mystery, can make the coming

year the very best ever,

unimaginably precious,

but only if we let it.

Danna Faulds