Evening Edition

👉 My 10 p.m. natural circadian bedtime is almost upon me, but before I retire for the night I wanted to talk about how sometimes when something comes up that is not welcomed or unwanted it is meant for us to cope.  

Today my car needed a new battery.  It was definitely a hurdle I really didn't want to bear because I just wanted to get in the car and go.  The blessing was that I was home when this incident occurred.

I could have been at work (been there, done that) or somewhere else where I was stranded in the cold.  

But going back to the fact that I was not able to just hop in the car and take off was a real unwanted challenge.  It delayed me an hour, but it was something I needed to cope with and God wanted to see how I handled it.  Once I fished out my AAA card, everything was fine.  

Maybe I was spared from an accident on the highway? 

Maybe I was spared from some other encounter within that hour I awaited the AAA man.  

There are things in life that come at us and we have to just live through.  

We cannot delete social media platforms (or deactivate them) simply because we need a break.  Life doesn't have a pause button.  

If something comes on the TV, radio, or a social media platform we simply have to cope with what we see and hear by expressing ourselves with civil communication.

💥Nobody should judge anyone for their behavior from January 2020 through January 2021 because people don't know how to act anymore.  People do not have the same social cues and people do not pick up on inflection.  Throughout our "quarantine" when we were kept from each other we lost a lot of our social skills.   Just because the government removes things and makes us avoid things doesn't grant us permission to continue to avoid things in life.  

Avoiding things and people is not healthy for the mind.  

 It's like in public speaking class and students have to sign up for when they want to give their speech.  Some sign up first but then other sign up on the last day.  Those people who wait it out are avoiding the first spots because of fear.  They do not want to face their fears.  They do not want to cope with the task that they need to accomplish.  

The students who sign up within the fist ten slots are usually the people who get better grades.

So what's the lesson?  C O P E.  We need to learn to face challenges and cope with what comes at us.  

And now it is 10 p.m. and I will catch you all in the morning.❤💖💗💕