The crazy thunderstorms last night that came and went as though nothing had happened were a great metaphor for my marriage which I gratefully honor today.
What I’ve learned, what we’ve learned (and not without great resistance) is
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
(great little gem of a book, by the way, by Richard Carlson)
And
“I choose to respond (not react)”
(the most important lesson learned from The Presence Process by Michael Brown)
Or Most Importantly
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow, come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all.”
Buddha’s Little Instruction Book
The ups and downs of any relationship are like storms that come and go.
As Mark Nepo wrote in The Book of Awakening, “ the storm by it’s nature wants to move on, and the tree’s grace is that it has no hands”
How to survive 25 Years of Marriage…..Be a Tree
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