Avoiding Overwhelm
The Angels – There are times when life feels overwhelming. Perhaps you have too many things to handle, and it seems impossible to juggle them all. Maybe you’re emotionally overloaded from being overstimulated by events in your own life, world events, or the behavior of others. You can even be overwhelmed by things that excite you if you have many desires and don’t know where to begin.
In each case, the feeling of overwhelm doesn’t come from the number of things on your schedule or on your mind, but rather from the inability to focus on one thing at a time.
Kate Spreckley – Everything we are experiencing is pushing us in some way to break free of our usual ways of being and doing. We are being urged to open ourselves up to a whole new way of seeing, and experiencing life which asks us to take risks and to move beyond the comfort of old roles, routines and outdated ways of living and being.
The Angels – Your eternal life is a series of beginnings and endings. Some are so subtle you don’t even notice them. You buy an apple at the grocery store, eat it, and compost the waste, never pondering the lineage of apple trees that went through decades of beginnings and endings to produce fruits that bore seeds that made trees that produced fruit that bore seeds… and so on, just to bring you that apple.
The Angels – Next time you go outside, root your feet firmly upon the Earth. Look up at the sky. Consider the fact that you are standing on a beautiful spinning orb in the midst of space—a planet teeming with life, evolving through time.