Where There is Love…

If someone were to ask me if I were a more of a religious person, or more of a spiritual one, I would say I am definitely more spiritual.  I believe there is a reason for everything, things become as they are supposed to be.  Not that I’m always happy with the reason or the result, but I truly believe the world becomes as it should.

Someone I know recently shared with me a beautiful quote taken from mystery novel The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny:

There’s something in this quote for everyone, spiritual or religious (or neither), happy or depressed, or with or without hope.  For me, it speaks directly to how I feel about my family.

I love them so much I’d do it.  Even if “it” is out of my comfort zone and scares the H out of me.  I’d accept a challenge, muster that courage, if it meant doing the best thing for them.

It’s not the “doing.”  It’s making that decision to be courageous, not necessarily acting on that decision, that can be the toughest part.  You know how stressful it can be to be faced with making a choice and once it’s made, you feel a wave of relief?  Bazinga.  Peace.  

That calm, that peace, comes from feeling the world is as it should be.  The decision that makes the most sense has been made.  We may worry about how tough the follow-through will be, or what the neighbors will think, but there’s that amazing feeling of peace that comes from someplace or someone more powerful than we humans are.  That peace is our sign we are heading in the best direction.

And then…we act on our decision, head down that path we forge with courage and peace.  Not the right path…the best path for our family.  From there, the world is our oyster, our everything, and the pearl? Our family.