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Daily Question, February 25

What teaches me about the fragility and resilience of life?

  • Dusty Su

    Companioning people at end of life. Interacting with the differently-able, and their families, as they strive for a state of flourishing. Openly and vulnerably sharing each others struggles and victories. A blade of grass breaking through cement.

  • reality

    What taught me about the fragility of life throughout it is humanity’s propensity to be addicted to destruction through to genocide, past the point of being self-possessed, to actual criminal insanity. Resilience, that somehow life persists in it’s choosing to evolve; regardlesss of the odds against it 🙂 reality

  • Tahsin Tabassum

    Fragility is our sadness and resilience is how we overcome it

  • Malag

    As we brace for the coronavirus the fragility of life comes to the forefront. But this question today is helpful and opportune. We still get to live this day, this moment and appreciate that we are resilient. That leads to a mitigation of worst-case thinking.

  • jessicamomberg

    My mother who fought breast cancer teaches me about resilience in life. The uncertainty of life is apparent and it teaches me that life is fragile. Every day is a true miracle.

  • fragility ..... this is the condition of my country today ... but how many countries like mine, how many children die of wars and hunger while in my country we are fighting - painfully fighting - the coronavirus? fragility ... we humans often don't like to admit it ... we are fragile, vulnerable. obviously we must not surrender to everything that threatens our health, obviously we must implement every possible measure, but please we don't always have to find a scapegoat, someone to blame. oh...

    fragility ….. this is the condition of my country today … but how many countries like mine, how many children die of wars and hunger while in my country we are fighting – painfully fighting – the coronavirus?
    fragility … we humans often don’t like to admit it … we are fragile, vulnerable.
    obviously we must not surrender to everything that threatens our health, obviously we must implement every possible measure,
    but please we don’t always have to find a scapegoat, someone to blame.
    oh, this desire to have everything under control, perhaps supported by social media, which through their algorithm makes us read only what is related to our opinions ….
    forgive me dear friends, for this outburst not perfectly in the theme, but it is right now. It is coming out of my soul.
    May God free us from this presumption.
    May God be close to all those who suffer in my surrounding villages and cities, as well as in all the suffering world.
    May God put his paternal hand on the shoulders of all those who are studying to find solutions, doing the best to help people, help the sick, heroically spending their energy not to give up.
    But, if I can, without being irreverent, may God help us understand that even 20 degrees Celsius at the south pole is another devastating contagion.

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  • Antoinette

    Birth, youth, middle age, old age, sickness and death are good teachers of fragility and resilience.

  • Cailinrua
    No doubt this, too, will pass, but I wasn't expecting an invisible unknown virus to throw the world into such panic and chaos at the moment, whether warranted or not. Although it's been a while now, I have spent time in a 3rd world country where one really knew that life was fragile. Here we believe, or are led to believe, that there is a way to control everything, or that there should be a solution to every problem; Our expectations, which give us hope and resilience, are high; our disa...

    No doubt this, too, will pass, but I wasn’t expecting an invisible unknown virus to throw the world into such panic and chaos at the moment, whether warranted or not. Although it’s been a while now, I have spent time in a 3rd world country where one really knew that life was fragile. Here we believe, or are led to believe, that there is a way to control everything, or that there should be a solution to every problem; Our expectations, which give us hope and resilience, are high; our disappointments great.

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  • Elizabeth M Jones
    A while ago I went on a retreat with my husband. The task at the retreat was to go outside and to take photos in nature of the way God speaks to us in nature. I took a photo of a tiny little flower that is blooming on the edge of a drainpipe. I thought that God spoke to me through this little flower. As an immigrant in a strange land, I could so easily have been washed down the difficulties of life as an immigrant but God kept me and my family safe. God gave us a tiny safe place to stand an...

    A while ago I went on a retreat with my husband. The task at the retreat was to go outside and to take photos in nature of the way God speaks to us in nature. I took a photo of a tiny little flower that is blooming on the edge of a drainpipe. I thought that God spoke to me through this little flower. As an immigrant in a strange land, I could so easily have been washed down the difficulties of life as an immigrant but God kept me and my family safe. God gave us a tiny safe place to stand and to bloom. How wonderful is that I thought to myself.

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  • Dawn Noel

    Love and courage. And the beautiful ephemeral tapestry we find here together.

  • Anita

    I’ve been sick for weeks…tired, zero energy, frustrated with waiting. This is fragility. Resilience is knowing this too will pass and Faith in God will guide me to where I need to be. ?

    • Antoinette

      Anita I’m sorry you’re not well. I hope you get well soon. Nothing lasts forever so that’s good news.

  • Mica

    My dear friend’s new dreadful mental health problems teach me about the fragility of life. Her past recovery from mental health problems lead me to hope for a resilience of her healthy life!

  • GCharlotte

    Being a mother& a daughter to my dad.

  • Present Moment

    Death and hope.

  • Tom

    What teaches me about fragility is the continual rising and falling of phenomenon. There is life followed by death and in between we experience sadness and happiness, triumph and disaster. Simply being able to embrace this reality is resilience. We can look for resilience underneath all of life’s vicissitudes and rest in our basic goodness and wholeness.

  • Carla

    Planet Earth-living in a northern US state of Minnesota I (still) see heavy snows that blanket the ground for months. We’re already experiencing some warm days & snow’s beginning to melt. I see patches of grass being exposed & tendrils of their shoots are unfurling to “live” & become green again. (If the question was “who” teaches me, I’d name some friends who’re refugees)

  • Javier Visionquest

    My honey bee colonies are dead. After a decade of, essentially, pissing up a rope I will not be replacing them again. My teacher has abandoned me at this place and I’m. . . free!

    When the student is ready the teacher emerges.

    • Michele

      I too am sorry to hear about the loss of your honey bee colonies. A decade of experience is knowledge for you:)

    • Mica

      Oh, Javier, I’m so sorry to hear this. Warm wishes to you!

    • Present Moment

      Thank you for your attempt to steward bees those essential connectors between plant and animal life. I honor their passage.

  • Ed Schulte

    What teaches me about the fragility and resilience of life?

    Human Beings

    This is a BBC article documenting a father teaching his daughter to “laugh in the face of war”. Please share it.

    www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-51567277/syria-civil-war-how-a-father-helps-his-daughter-cope-with-life-in-a-warzone

    • Maya

      Very touching. Thank you for sharing, Ed

      • Ed Schulte
        Dear Maya“ Touching” yes, But also, thanks to the teachings and experience of my Essene contacts I can understand that…. should those bombs ( dropped on them by the unconscious ones) destroy their physical bodies ….they will be liberated and continue on to a FULL completion of their life cycle, father and daughter, in a higher realm…and return in higher levels of Being-ness. Such is the Divine Wisdom within the Divine Plan. And for that we can be truly Grateful! As for the fu...

        Dear Maya“

        Touching” yes,

        But also, thanks to the teachings and experience of my Essene contacts I can understand that…. should those bombs ( dropped on them by the unconscious ones) destroy their physical bodies ….they will be liberated and continue on to a FULL completion of their life cycle, father and daughter, in a higher realm…and return in higher levels of Being-ness.

        Such is the Divine Wisdom within the Divine Plan. And for that we can be truly Grateful!

        As for the future for this who unconsciously allow their tax money to go towards the making and delivery of those bombs? ….well they too will rewarded in accordance with the often repeated (…but little understood in the full extent of the meaning behind the words …..)

        “As you sow, So Shall you reap.”

        Be Well Be Present

        EdS

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  • Michele

    Death and miracles.

  • Trish

    The process of death has lots to teach us. We are all just a breath away from leaving this part of our lives~the epitome of fragility. There are people who make the decision to prolong their departure and show the world their fighting spirit. This is resilience❤️

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