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Daily Question, July 25

What anchors (or has anchored) my life amidst the storms?

  • KC

    Family and friends. Faith and other community. Spiritual practices and prayer.. A safe, stable, quiet home. Professional healers. Solitude. Kind, generous, good people. Connecting with nature. Pretty much any practice that facilitates a shift from thoughts and emotions to body/mind , and especially heart – yoga, mediation, reading, writing, drawing, walking, hiking, cycling…

  • Antoinette

    Being able to take a step back from any given situation helps to calm my mind.
    Having go to sayings :
    This too will pass and maybe so maybe not also help me to not over exaggerate in the heat of things. Also, when I try to find the opportunities in whatever may be occurring rather than putting a negative twist in.
    Finally, by saying yes to whatever comes my way with an open mind and heart. Allowing whatever comes my way to be there and find something to be grateful for.

  • Aine

    My relationship with God that started before I knew who God was, my husband, friends, and also the gifts of my animals and Nature.

  • Alex Gary

    My two daughters. There have been many, many times I’ve wanted to give up but kept going because of them.

  • Hot Sauce

    For the earliest storms in my life, when I look back, it was an intuitive knowing that I would get through it (even though I also felt like it would never get better). For the more recent storms in my life, I knew that I had prayed for wisdom and so I also knew that I had to undergo much difficulty if I was to become wise. This made me grateful for the experience because it would help me become a smarter, kinder person. I am also now grateful that I got through those early storms. If you had tol...

    For the earliest storms in my life, when I look back, it was an intuitive knowing that I would get through it (even though I also felt like it would never get better). For the more recent storms in my life, I knew that I had prayed for wisdom and so I also knew that I had to undergo much difficulty if I was to become wise. This made me grateful for the experience because it would help me become a smarter, kinder person. I am also now grateful that I got through those early storms. If you had told me that all that would be over and that I would be writing about this on a gratitude blog, I would have never believed you! Praise the LORD!

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  • Winnie

    Faith replacing concerns. Living one day at a time, turning my life over to God.

  • Ben

    The love of friends, the love that’s within me and in nature and the vast mysterious universe, and the love that arises sometimes from strangers, or people in groups dedicated to healing, or therapists… it seems love has held me, showing up when I’ve needed it in a thousand forms and a thousand ways, often unexpectedly and deeper than I could have predicted.

  • Susan

    Prayer. Praying for others. Praying for myself. And faith in knowing that God is good, loving and compassionate.

    • Aine

      Are you familiar with the term Hesed? It speaks of those aspects of God and is one of my new favorite words. 🙂

  • Deb

    To each response thus far, I mentally say "yes". And similar to every one who lives, my life has had a lot of challenges and tragedy. It is like the beavers say, "One dam thing after another!"
    What has always anchored me was knowing God was with me, that I was not alone even though I felt alone. There would then occur a serendipitous something, a small rest to catch my breath and grant me what I needed to continue one more step, then one more, then one more...........until I have come this far....

    To each response thus far, I mentally say “yes”. And similar to every one who lives, my life has had a lot of challenges and tragedy. It is like the beavers say, “One dam thing after another!”
    What has always anchored me was knowing God was with me, that I was not alone even though I felt alone. There would then occur a serendipitous something, a small rest to catch my breath and grant me what I needed to continue one more step, then one more, then one more………..until I have come this far. One. More. Step.

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  • Trevor

    The seeds planted long ago. Perhaps more lifetimes than one can count on both hands.

  • sparrow

    For many years
    I had no anchor,
    and I flailed through life
    like a fish on a hook.
    My anchor now,
    is my belief
    that no matter what happens
    all will be well,
    and that there is a Greater Purpose to the universe than I can see now.
    (though I admit to having my shaky moments)

    . . . another answer might be Grace . . .

  • Michael

    faith. also, a belief in myself and in others…that things will eventually work out to the good in its own time thru hustle, prayer/meditation, and love.

  • Palm

    I think the practice on this site since the beginning of this year has been an anchor even amidst imaginary storms. I thought recently how I now stop to think “is this really a reason to panic?”, then I breath and all is well again

    • Aine

      I like that simple question, Palm. Thank you. We have some things going on at present that tempt me to panic, but again and again God reassures me that this, too, is under control. Now to get ME there, too! lol

      • Palm

        Yes Aine 🙂 changes usually feel like danger, I am on the same boat at the moment, the mind says the move is not too logical, yet deep inside it feels right, so I take this as the reassurance from God that you speak about, thank you for the reminder

  • Christina

    A dogged determination to advance and I guess, faith.

  • Kevin

    My family, my faith and my close friends. Honestly, that covers it all for me. And I experience it all as a gift and a blessing.

  • kathleen

    equanimity, self compassion, faith and family/spiritual advice

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