What's Saving Your Life These Days?
In her book Leaving Church, Barbara Brown Taylor asked the question: What's saving your life right now? It's a question I've been thinking a lot about lately amidst all the changes that have been happening in my life.
In the past few months, I started a new job, started wrapping up major pieces of my business, my wife started a new job, she left for a month of training, we sold and bought a house, and moved. Oh...and I've been working on releasing my new book (Welcome to) The Shit Club: A Male's Perspective on Stillbirth, Grief, and Loss. I give the whole experience a gracious 1-star rating.
Tonight, I find myself sitting on the couch in front of the fireplace, a glass of whiskey in hand, and music playing softly in the background, and one question keeps flickering through my mind: What's saving your life right now?
The beauty of the question is that the answer can be something big or small. Something deep and personal, or light-hearted and silly. The question at its core requires us to take a moment, sit, take a breath, and check in with our heart-of-hearts for just a moment to ask ourselves what's bringing joy, hope, or maybe even what's keeping our heads just above water.
For me, it's a few things:
1. The kids are back in school! Can I get a hallelujah? I love my kids with all my beings and on the first day of school, you would have found me dancing down the road from the school bus. I'm happy to report that the kids are starting to get used to being back in routine, and are making friends at their new school.
1. The trees: Although it pains me that the leaves are already starting to turn colours, this is my favourite season of the year. Cue the soup, hot coffee out in the Muskoka room, warm and comfy sweaters, and simply taking in the beauty of the vibrant colours that we're surrounded with.
1. The water: Although we didn't move to a place ON the water, we're really close to many bodies of water. There's been something about water throughout my life that continues to nourish my soul, and it makes my heart sing to pass bodies of water, sit at the water, or walk alongside the water every single day.
What about you? What's saving your life right now?