Positive vibes and energy are needed for recovery. I could not have gone through the journey without positivity. I am told I sometimes have too much faith in humanity…I possibly do, but faith is what grounds me.
Faith:
Reminds me of the Bon Jovi song – Keep the Faith. Great artist and one of my favourite songs.
The chorus is particularly uplifting. When life gets hard you have to keep upbeat and this is my message through all of my blog articles and poems. As I said previously we all face adversity, it’s how we handle it that makes us stronger and adaptable (resilient). Without faith, we would find it hard to believe things will improve and that we can make progress towards our goals.
Let’s look at the lyrics:
[Chorus]
(Faith) You know you’re gonna live through the rain
Lord, we’ve gotta keep the faith
(Faith) Don’t you let your love turn to hate
Now we’ve gotta keep the faith
[Post-Chorus]
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord, we’ve gotta keep the faith
….
Changing the life one random act of kindness at a time:
Think of kindness you can share. Sometimes on walks I have found notes of kindness and compassion left by others.
There is an elderly person (in our village) who knits small pixies and other small woollen gifts for children to find and keep. I have found two for our daughter. A pixie when I was pregnant (on a tree like this one), and a butterfly 🦋 when we moved in to our current house (first pond walk with my daughter).
During lockdown people left notes of kindness and the local primary school created an art (rainbow coloured) snake to show their gratitude to our emergency and health services.
It’s little acts of random kindness which brighten up your life.
My daughter was given a rock from a friend and she painted it with her rainbow colour paint pens, and gave it back to the little girl. Both were delighted and hugged to say thank you, and looked forward to seeing one another at nursery. If only more people were like the elderly lady , or my daughter and her friend… or the primary school children.
Each act of kindness allows me to have faith in humanity.
Think of how you can be kind and surprise a loved one or stranger with a small token of appreciation.
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