How Did We Get Here?

Big question right? But honestly, if I could just muse for a moment…”How did we get here?” I’ve been sitting in this question for a few months now and, for me, it feels quite uncomfortable… like some days, I want to crawl out of my own skin. While we’ve all put our best foot forward to make subtle changes in the ways we think and live each day, we’ve also been slacking a little bit too. Sorry for my pessimism this morning it just sometimes hits me over the head and I exclaim out loud “Why haven’t we been better?”!!! 

I am a silver lining kind of person. I 99.9% of the time look for the good, look for the growth and celebrate the possibility in pretty much any lesson that comes my way. Honestly, I believed COVID was here for a short time (ha!) to teach us some valuable lessons and then send us on our way to BE BETTER. Yes, I thought…summer will arrive, the virus will fade away and we will all resume some semblance of a better normal. While it might be a turbulent decent, we will land, take a deep breath, gather our belongings and proceed through the exit. This is just not the case.

We are sitting in it. We are sitting in it. We are sitting in it. So, what do we do? If I take a moment to bring us back to my title “How did we get here?”, I notice my pessimistic finger slowing wanting to rise and point. Ugh. Don’t point. Don’t blame. It’s never worth it. Instead, hold up the mirror and look deeply within. Have I been loving enough? Have WE been loving enough?

Coming back to love always seems so.damn.simple. Love, love love. We say it, we think about it, we float it out to the universe and yet we need more. There is so much TALK about love these days, but are we truly embodying it to the point where it is overflowing out of our crown? Love certainly has the potential to fill in the cracks and yet we are SO CRACKED, we need to start stepping up our game. We have a lot of work to do and right now… love is our life support so lets get moving.

So, what does that look like for you? One visual I want to offer is this… think about a seesaw. Up and down, back and forth…gentle, flow. RHYTHMIC (Avoid thinking about the times you tried to bump your friend off by jolting your feet to the ground to create a sudden stop and catapult… you know what I’m talking about!) Anyway, in order to up our LOVE expression we must make sure to go inward (BIG TOPIC… we can chat more about that another time) and then express it outward. In other words, take small moments to LOVE inward and then initiate an act of love OUTWARD. Remember, these can be oh so simple. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Up and down. Up and down. Up and down. Inward and outward. Give a call, share a story, make someone laugh…. always with love on the mind and in the heart. Let’s vibrate higher.