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Daily Question, November 9

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

  • Laura May

    My loved ones, specifically my mother. The sound of the rain on the pavement. Cups of tea on cold days. Anything that feels like home.

  • Ed

    Plain old gravity has helped many times. Doing nothing leaves open the possibility of tomorrow.

  • Hillary

    What has kept me most anchored is my children. If I give up in life, I am giving up on them as well.

  • Rebecca A Burton

    Reading daily meditations published by my faith tradition the first thing when waking, loving my husband for the kindness he brings into my life and appreciating nature anchors me amidst life storms.

  • Ose
    These days I almost lost trust and hope that things could ever turn out to the better again. I was thrown to and fro by heavy wind and rain, nearly losing orientation and the ground under my feet. Reading your posts, some of hope comes back now, so it is you here who join, who currently anchor my life amidst a heavy storm with your loving kindness. When I started reading tonight after keeping myself collected and centered as good as possible, trying my best to stay balanced, I had to cry, as you...

    These days I almost lost trust and hope that things could ever turn out to the better again. I was thrown to and fro by heavy wind and rain, nearly losing orientation and the ground under my feet. Reading your posts, some of hope comes back now, so it is you here who join, who currently anchor my life amidst a heavy storm with your loving kindness. When I started reading tonight after keeping myself collected and centered as good as possible, trying my best to stay balanced, I had to cry, as your lovely comments have warmed me and opened some perspective again, for which I cannot express how grateful I am. And there is something inside of me that I start to trust more, some growing of integrity, and some ability to staying connected in loving kindness against all odds.
    May you all be held in His grace when heavy winds may crush over you and bring freshness and perspective to all of you. Thank you so much for your being here with me.

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    • Carla

      My dear Ose, May you know there is a gossamer Thread connecting us together & we in turn are connected to the one who is Eternal Love. ?

    • grateful sea

      Dear Ose, thank you for being here with us. You are a beautiful soul. May you stay connected in lovingkindness towards yourself as you do to all beings.

    • May you see light ?and feel trust! Thank you for your gentle and courageous sharing ?

  • Linda

    My husband, my friends, my family.

  • Wiltrud

    Faith, family, friends
    and sometimes also an excellent doctor.

  • GCharlotte

    Knowing that I may trust in God and that I have a firm family has anchored me amidst the storms. Trusting in God has given me dignity before trials. My family’s roots has allowed me not to go far from the tree ahead of the storm.

  • Cheryl Read

    The belief that I am divinely guided.

  • Malag

    As with a storm: My family is my shelter; the hard knocks of life is my training; good self care is my emergency kit; and if I need to send a mayday or fire a flare I can get professional help as needed. And the anchor I drop is the deep belief that I will get through and the storm will bring opportunity eventually.

    • Debra

      Malag: How wonderful to read your ‘share’ and be reunited with the fortitude that ‘the storm’ will bring opportunity eventually. Thank you for gratefully being with me to positively and lovingly shape my day. Blessings, Debra

      • Malag

        Debra, I appreciate your comment. Thanks. I used to say that there’d be opportunity before really feeling that there would be but after years of ups and downs (and after all who really knows what’s up or down?) I am convinced of it.

  • Present Moment

    My conscious contact with the God of my understanding, talks with the natural world, especially my animals. Self forgiveness

    • I like the term ‘God of my understanding’, it sounds like a very personal relationship and/or direct experience ?

    • Present Moment

      Also pranayama breathing and this site.thank you, thank you, thank you.

  • Tom

    If I were to say that there has been one thing that has anchored my life it is the light of life within. No matter how stormy life becomes I have always been able to find the light within that keeps me going. At times this light is not always shining brightly, but at times it is. I believe this light was there before I was born and will continue after this body dies.

    • Debra

      Tom: So very true. So very enlightening to remember and to replenish the soul. Blessings, Debra

  • Carol

    All is grace. Sometimes it comes through another. Sometimes it comes through surrender. The key in my experience is always willingness to admit I’m lost and open to being found no matter what that might mean.

    • sparrow

      This so resonates with me,
      dear Carol . . .
      ‘all is Grace’.

    • Wow, that’s courageous!

  • Tom Denham
    Faith in kindness. I feel as if I have always lived in the presence of God. A loving, kind God. And I have always been graced with loving, kind people in my life. Those people have sometimes been occasional visitors and not regulars in my life, but they have shown up with kindness at times that have nurtured me in important ways. The nice thing about having some years behind me is the ability to remember how many times something turned out badly and then life was good. Failure was not the end, b...

    Faith in kindness. I feel as if I have always lived in the presence of God. A loving, kind God. And I have always been graced with loving, kind people in my life. Those people have sometimes been occasional visitors and not regulars in my life, but they have shown up with kindness at times that have nurtured me in important ways. The nice thing about having some years behind me is the ability to remember how many times something turned out badly and then life was good. Failure was not the end, but only a door to a satisfying path that I had not anticipated. In my experience, we live in a world of kindness. When the storms come, do your best. Whatever happens will be okay.

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  • Ann

    Self-confidence based on previous experience–the trusting belief in my own ability to ‘come out the other end of the storm’ with some sense of ok-ness–even if the end result does not turn out to be exactly what I’d wanted or hoped for. With each experience of ‘making it through the storm’, and knowing, quite clearly, in the end, that I DID make it through that ‘storm,’ strengthens my confidence in my ability to ‘make it through’ whatever comes in the future.

  • Samuel

    Love. My Lord’s love for me and my love for my Lord. Mutual love that my late wife and I shared for 53 years. Mutual love shared by me and my natural family, my church family, and my many, many loving friends who care about and for me. Love of humanity that encourages me to donate to others less fortunate than myself. As one of my dear friends so aptly puts it, “Love Conquers All.”

  • Michele

    myself.

  • Mark Piper

    Mentors I have been able to confide in and glean wisdom from; memories especially of previous storms I survived so as to remind me of hope; attempts at love/loving and a good book with a nip of the good stuff helps when I am in the midst of the storm.

  • Carla

    Storms remind me to stay anchored & tethered in my relationship with the God of my Understanding. Remembering my life’s story affirms that I’m taken care of, day by day.

  • there was a time in my life, when nothing anchored me in the storms, and I was literally blown around like a leave… now it’s the connection of my trust towards the presence of the unspeakable and the unspeakable taking all kinds of forms (teachers, friends, sunrises kind suprises…..) that provides refuge and solace. this may sound quite mystical, but is is not necessarily : it is about being wakeful towards what life is offering also in the most challenging moments and the trust comes fro...

    there was a time in my life, when nothing anchored me in the storms, and I was literally blown around like a leave… now it’s the connection of my trust towards the presence of the unspeakable and the unspeakable taking all kinds of forms (teachers, friends, sunrises kind suprises…..) that provides refuge and solace. this may sound quite mystical, but is is not necessarily : it is about being wakeful towards what life is offering also in the most challenging moments and the trust comes from this repeated experience.

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