Living is a season of complexity and chaos

Living in a season of complexity and chaos, will you learn to live in the eye of the storm?

We were never told life would be easy but so often it is so much harder than we had believed or hoped. How do we react though? Positivity is vitally important if we want to do more than survive but when the positivity depends on mankind doing things, it often doesn’t last.

At what point is it not about effort but about trust about acceptance ?

Because at that point things become limitless

Our mistakes don’t limit us only our fears. You’ve gotta make peace with the past if you want hope for the future.

When I was asked ‘Doing your first big challenge, how did you know you could do it?’

I answered quite simply ‘well I guess I never thought I couldn’t’.

You can only make change if you understand what the problem is.

But there is a caveat. The more overwhelmed we are, the less helpful and effective we become. It can seem selfish to pause when there is so much suffering and as hard as it is for people to grasp, we do need rest. Rest allows regeneration, which allows for more intentional choices for change.”

Over the last few years, as I have worked through trying to deal with the uncertainty of life and the unpredictability of financial security due to the worlds chaos and unprecedented happenings, I have come to realize a few things that have helped me to keep going and move forward in life.

For me, ‘embrace the chaos’ means to ‘accept’ the uncertainty of life and move forward anyway! Take action despite not knowing how things will turn out.

To stop overthinking, stop over analysing, stop trying to predict. To go ahead, take action, move forward with more determination than ever, start new things whether careers, hobbies or relationships and stop overthinking whether or not they will work.

But self-doubt arises in all of us. No matter how strong we might be, we find ourselves asking, “Why should I embrace the chaos?”

Life has always been unpredictable and full of uncertainty. We just didn’t realize it. Accept it. Don’t fight it. Accepting the reality of our world today is the most important way to learn to live in it. Let go of your ego. Let go of trying to force order and perfection in an imperfect world, an imperfect life full of ups and downs and uncertainty. Often, stress, anxiety and tension occur when you fight hard to change something you cannot change.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.