“Sometimes it is good to stop, look up and remember everything we can be grateful for”
uk.ChurchofJesusChrist.org
This morning I came across a video. It was the reminder of what I actually needed right now. It’s such a busy time. I have so many things that I keep telling myself that need to get done.
Client work, statements to complete and review, emails to send out, invites to my upcoming programs, sponsors to find for my planners, unpacking from my trip last week, laundry, cleaning the house and finally decorating the tree and putting up the lights.
It’s so easy to get caught up in it all.
It can also be an emotional time of year. Missing those who I want to be with who have passed on or are just not available emotionally or physically or just live too far away to make time together possible.
It can become easy to get stuck in overwhelm or retreat into myself or hide in work or fall down the social media rabbit hole as an escape.
So that’s why this video I watched was just what I needed today. It was a reminder to focus on what is most important. That gratitude and happiness come from looking up.
Look up and connect
Look up and serve
Look up and be present
Look up and find hope
Look up and choose to be grateful
Yesterday I had to cut my work day short to fulfill a promise to our son. It was so tempting to say I just can’t go, you’ll have to go without me. I have too much work to do.
For the first 30 minutes or more I struggled with focusing on everything that still needed to be done and when would I be able to do it and feeling guilty that I hadn’t replied to clients and the links and payment processing weren’t working and I hadn’t finished my newsletter. On and on and on. I was stuck in the loop.
But as I became more present to my son, his friend and my husband and the time we were spending together, slowly I began to decompress.
I was able to enjoy sharing food together, shopping for gifts, a walk in the park to see the christmas lights and warm hot chocolate.
I was looking up, feeling grateful and creating happy memories that have sustained me into the next day, have given me hope and reminded me of what is most important, who I love and that I am loved.
I hope that you can also slow down, look up from all you do and find the things that make you happy, grateful and hopeful during this time of year.
And if you need a reminder or know someone who else who does, you can watch the video here.
“Today I started my day by looking up to my Heavenly Father and bathing in the light of His love and allowing His peace to wash over me.”
Laura Lane from ‘I Touch the Heavens’