Suffering through a time of joy?

Happy holidays, happy thanksgiving, merry Christmas, Happy New Year, have a good weekend, have a good day, it’s all good, etc.

We’re really setting ourselves up. Candidly none of us are up to the task of faking all that happiness and goodness. Yet, we all pretend and think we’re the only ones who are; sad, angry, afraid, lonely, jealous, selfish or a host of other things we don’t want to be and or don’t want to feel.

Here’s the thing about this. Pain is inevitable, some suffering is inevitable, much of our suffering is caused by our efforts to avoid pain and suffering.

Yes, avoidance causes most our suffering. And most of us have become really talented, often by practicing for decades, at avoiding pain and adding to our suffering, actually piling on, thinking we’re helping ourselves or others.

Being kind to ourselves is often the hardest and most important first step. Being kind to ourselves begins to align us with Love from beyond yet within bringing us a deep knowing that; we are welcome, we are held, we are enough, we are home. Allow yourself to be kind to you and you will more deeply understand the Love which is here for you, me, each of us, all of us.