While you are able to be busy, there will never be enough time
to get everything you want to do done or to meet all of the demands that other
people will put on you.
When you are no longer physically or mentally able to be busy
any more there will be too much time sitting alone with your thoughts and most
worrisome with your regrets.
This mornings inspirational reading challenged me to set good
boundaries by creating safe spaces within my day, week, month, etc. for me to
be still, to calm the cacophony of demands both internal and external, to be
present within my body, and spirit, to listen for that still small voice that
waits with unconditional love within each of us.
Setting good boundaries first and foremost means creating a
safe space for yourself everyday. Then going
to that place and residing there until once again connected to your
spiritual self, you emerge back into the world secure in the knowledge of who
you are and that you are loved.
The safety industry
understands that importance of looking out for #1, on airplanes parents with
children are told to put their oxygen mask on first so that they can look after
their children.
Yet too often care
givers of all makes and descriptions put their needs last, and too soon
burn out, become ill themselves or worse yet become impatient and frustrated
and take out their feeling on the persons they are giving care too.
Safe spaces have to be deliberate and do not necessarily have
to be private. It is a place where you
can calm the noise in your mind, and relax back into your own body, for a
friend it is 30 minutes spent at her favourite coffee shop, sitting at a table
facing the park with a hot up of coffee.
For my Grandmother it was
working in her garden, where she would on her knees, pull weeds, pray for
her family and listen to her Lord.
Find your safe place and spend time there everyday because you are worth it.
Grandma Snyder
©2013-2018 twosnydergirls
Today post was inspired by the January 18, 2018 Pray as you go inspirational audit podcast.
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