This weeks installment of the SANDBOX WRITING CHALLENGE has us contemplating and answering the following…….
Have to admit there have been times I’ve asked myself that very same thing Calvin! 😬
When confronted with a problem
I used to run away
Or close my ‘eyes’ and ignore it,
In hopes it would just go away……
That was then, This is now…
I handle things differently.
When a problem arises
Now, what I do,
Depends upon the degree of problem.
I may take a Soul Stroll
To ponder the issue,
Write it in the sand,
And let it go…….
Other times, I seek counsel
With someone close to me.
We talk it out,
We work it out
Together we can conquer anything……
Then there are ‘those’ times
When all I can do is shrug…
Sometimes,
The answer isn’t quite so clear.
In those times, I have found,
The best thing to do, is ‘put it out there’
And wait.
I’ve learned that if the answer to a problem
Is really hard to come by,,
Then maybe, just maybe, the solution isn’t
Meant to be found at the moment…..
Answers have come and will come,
when they’re meant to,
Not before.
And then there are those times,
When I can’t get a grasp on it,
I’ll sit.
I sit with Grandpa’s Bible in my hand.
I ‘talk’ to him.
I know he listens,
I’ve seen/felt the signs….
Giving them over
When I’m feeling at a loss
Frees me up and lightens the load….
Problems…they will come
And
They will go…..
I choose to confront them
In as positive a way as I can…..
Do I stress, do I get anxious?!
Yes,,,,but it’s usually short lived,
Cause worrying doesn’t help nor is it a solution……
I have found worrying only exasperates the problem…….
I Will continue to wear my Rose-Colored Glasses and keep on keepin’ on, no matter what life throws at me! 😎
I still have to fight the urge to just close my eyes and pretend there are no problems. It seems easier but in the long run just makes problems into life wrecking monsters.
Exactly!!!
I have learned, albeit a bit late in life, that anything I worry about hardly ever happens.
Ain’t that the truth Bernadette!!! It’s something I continuously try to tell my daughter…I’d like to spare her all those years of senseless worrying!!!
Can’t put an old head on young shoulders.
That should be a bumper sticker Bernadette 😄
The rollercoaster year has taught me to take care of the things I can handle, stop worrying about what it is out of my control and have faith that things will work out. I suppose I should be grateful for a hard year
I find/believe that being positive and being grateful puts you a head of ‘the game’ 😊
“I’ve learned that if the answer to a problem
Is really hard to come by,,
Then maybe, just maybe, the solution isn’t
Meant to be found at the moment…..”
Well THAT’S a brand new perspective to me. I would never have thought of that. Great post!
😊😊😊😊😊 thanks C!!! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,,,,but we find it helps.
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Good attitude to solving problems. We tend to make little ones into huge ones. Leave ’em alone and they shrink, sometimes even disappear !
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Quick question – that site you got Calvin and Hobbes from – I presume is copyright free ?
I so enjoyed reading the above, especially about your Grandpa and “I talk to him, I know he listens, I’ve seen/felt the signs….” thats the truth and it helps us get through. Facing problems for me has always meant making more problems for myself, but this year I have learned from the courage of others.
Oh isn’t that the case Anna….I’ve been notorious in the past for making more problems…lol
It is dreadful isn’t Linda when you try to make it smoother and it just gets worse. Ther more I used to try and avoid arguments with my Mother the more rows there would be. Now its quite and its lovely.
I love your image of the word problems in the shore – surely to be washed away. That is a great image to keep in my head when I perceive a problem that just might be washed away with time.
😊😊😊😊 I find it to be very therapeutic LuAnne!!
One of my favourite guided meditations is to a little beach cove that is hidden away and secret, and in the meditation you’re lying on the beach and your problems melt into the sand and when you leave, they are gently washed away with the incoming tide.
Love the response to the challenge, so many different and beautiful ways of dealing with life documented in the poem.
Sounds like my kind of meditation Safar! 😊😊