Each month I want to introduce a new daily challenge, while trying to keep up with the challenges of previous months. This month, I wanted to find something that is calming. Everything is so crazy and upside down right now in our country, it has gotten to be quite stressful and anxiety causing. So, I wanted to find something to begin my day in a relaxed and hopeful manner. And the answer came in a birthday gift.
June got me a subscription to Strength & Grace from Guideposts. I had a subscription to Guideposts several years ago and loved it. It's something that I remember Grandmother reading a lot and I found it to be quite comforting. I really should start my subscription back up. Anyway, Strength & Grace is daily devotions aimed at caregivers. Working in senior living, this is perfect.
I sat down with my coffee this morning and read my first devotion. I had just received the magazine several days ago and the devotions are for February and March, so the timing is perfect. This morning's devotion was about how sometimes just being OK is a blessing. The context was that the author went to visit an uncle who had dementia. It was a good day for him, memory wise, and he told her that he was doing OK. She thought about how earlier in life she would have wanted more for her uncle than just OK but now it is a blessing when he as those OK days. Right now, simply getting through the day and coming through with my sanity is enough and when I read this devotion, I felt better because sometimes I'm just OK, no more, no less. And now I can see that as a blessing.
That is all.
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