A virus? A pandemic? And, we’re told that age (being old), current health condition and anything less than perfect (my slant on the information given) lungs and heart, position one as prime candidate for the terminal journey of the coronavirus now infecting (infesting) virtually every continent in the world. The best method of prevention is to not be exposed to it. Well, isn’t that special – that applies to any disease, I recon!! It would apply to life as well. To avoid death, don’t be born! Serious stuff with silly expressions of “remedies” thrown its way. We must be careful that we ask the right questions since our participation in this journey places us directly in what could be harm’s way. Even if we know that the thief is hiding along the path we’ve chosen to travel to accomplish what we determine to be “worthwhile”, we still need to be alert to all the ways in which we can be prepared to avoid and or defeat this enemy. The virus has only one major ambition in life: To produce multiples of itself (propagate)in a way that ensures its expression of life, whether as currently expressed or more efficiently and effectively, to evolve into its fullest potential. No one has a valid clue about into what it could ultimately evolve. It has no clue as to its evolutionary destination, but that does not stop or curtail the processes it must undertake to accomplish its end. Wow! It is impossible to communicate with it at our or its level of understanding. We cannot influence its drive to engage in its nature to replicate, duplicate, or evolve into what it is in its destiny. We CAN learn how it lives outside it’s apparent host(s), (humans and potentially others in the animal kingdom), what ignites its infection/infestation in a potential host, the weaknesses in its replication process and any number of other possible means by which we may find a “win” over its desire for life. This miniscule occupant of the living world that we mutually share shows us, in a way we’ve not experienced in quite this fashion worldwide, that the “routine” of life is not one we should take for granted. We’ve been suddenly thrown into the task of having to analyze our vulnerability, our strengths, the most positive action and interaction in our family and community in which we should engage. The “social” and “emotional” interactions that we have become accustomed to and to even “expect” in our relationships have been turned on their proverbial ear. This possessor of a Thriving Heart that is experienced as a gift from my creator that is to be nurtured by action that demonstrates my gratitude for the opportunities that have been given, and that are yet to be given, and that reflect the magnificent love and care of the Creator and Sustainer of this space in time we call life. May we each find the space and place wherein we may thrive in the challenge of life that is beyond, career, finances, and or “traditional” relationships. Our challenge is not simply life or death, but rather our challenge is to live with the mind of one who thrives, taking each moment beyond a desire to simply survive.
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