Fuel for Change

[Pandemic - IV]

Right in the middle of a pandemic. That’s where we are.

Right here. This life. With all its failures, missed opportunities, unfulfilled dreams . . . and viruses.

If you’re like me during this pandemic, you often dream of another life, the one you missed, the one you could have had, the one that so-and-so lives.

The dreaming is like a pressure release valve that keeps my life from exploding. But my dreaming is also the fodder that I gnaw on and therefore never grow hungry enough to change all that needs to change in my own life.

Even in this time of immense frustration, letdown, and grief . . .
. . . if we can drill into the life we have now
. . . if we can excavate it for all that it has to offer now
. . . if we can milk it for all its nourishment and surprise and sweetness now

We will inevitably arrive at both gratitude and a restless need to discover more. And in that "thankful restlessness” we will find all the fuel we need for change.