Have you ever been to a circus and watched trapeze artists? It's quite entertaining to see. It amazes me thinking of it. Then there is real life when it can feel as if we are on a trapeze, swinging, off the first platform but not to the opposite one, swinging, fearful of falling to the net below...if there is one!
Quite a picture, isn't it? However, what do you do when life's challenges present circumstances that must wait for one thing or another? Perhaps waiting for the mail to bring information, a decision from a department which is necessary before the next move, or even days to pass over a weekend in order to make a phone call to clarify a question. It really is like swinging on one trapeze bar unable to reach the other side yet.
We have all been in similar situations, all with different details. Then we ask ourselves why we wake up in the middle of the night, unable to get back to sleep. Our wheels are turning.
Well, what tools are in our personal toolbox to keep us grounded? Perhaps it's a good friend who is more available at this time of day, so we talk and laugh and then can fall back to sleep. Books on tape help, but if the book is too interesting we may stay awake listening to it! Then there is prayer. It is wonderful to "fall asleep on the breast of God" as one retreat speaker shared many years ago.
These are helps that can keep us strong as we are swinging on the trapeze of life, so we don't fall. So, too, it always helps to remember there is a net below. That net is faith in God and knowing no matter what, we will be OK.
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