Everywhere
Everywhere –
This morning, sitting in church with my arm around my wife, I felt her stiffen up and begin looking nervous. I bent my head to her ear and asked; “What’s wrong?” “Wasp!” was her reply. I looked at the window behind us and there was the feared insect. My wife is allergic to any kind of sting and we did not have her Epi-pen. We hoped it would stay there and turned our attention back to the preacher. A few moments later the insect flew between us and landed on the top of a pew about 10 feet away. The woman sitting in front of us and directly behind the wasp saw it, took out a hymnal, and; “Whack!” No more bug, no more danger. We both breathed a sigh of relief.
Reflecting on the wasp’s last flight I am reminded that no matter the place or the time there is always and everywhere a danger lurking. Maybe it’s a sense of unworthiness, a reminder of a loved one gone too soon, a habit, a hurt, a hangup. We must be aware and empowered realizing we are not helpless. There is a difference between living life scared and living it vigilantly. Freedom comes from knowing your enemy not from having no enemies. The difference makes all the difference.
blessings,
@BrianLoging (Twitter)
thewannabesaint.com
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Posted on June 10, 2018, in Mindfulness and tagged # moments, #allergic, #attention, #beaware, #behind, #bentmyhead, #between, #blessings, #breathed, #danger, #difference, #differencemakesallthedifference, #directly, #empowered, #enemies, #Everywhere, #feared, #freedom, #gonetoosoon, #habit, #hangup, #hoped, #hurt, #knowingyourenemy, #livinglife, #lovedone, #lurking, #nervous, #nomoredanger, #place, #reflecting, #reminded, #scared, #senseofunworthiness, #sighofrelief, #stiffen, #tense, #thewannabesaint.com, #vigilantly, #Whack, #Whatswrong, @BrianLoging. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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