The Gift

Blessed

We are bombarded daily with a stream of news, advertisements, and demands on our time and attention.  Social media, TV, Movies, music, entertainment in every form.  And we get this constant buzz of information from every device phones, tvs, pcs, cars, radios, and yes even our speakers.  

Our children are being told the world is ending due to climate change, that they should question their identity, and can be manipulated at every turn. Parenting is paramount. 

And yet during these apparently troubled times, it's important to understand how Blessed we all are to be part of the Divine Dance of life.  The gift of life and the ability to contribute, to experience, to live, love, and thrive is available to all of us. 

We have the power.  We have the choice to choose what we feed ourselves our Spirits our Souls, our Hearts and Minds.  Do we just allow ourselves and our children to ingest these negativity and poison ourselves.  No! There is a better way.

Throughout time there is always challenges with daily living war, famine, disasters but we have this supernatural ability to overcome, to rise above, to succeed.  With our trust in God, and the acknowledgement of our own divine abilities, we can create a life and world that is truly spectacular. 

Each of us has the responsibility to be that Beacon that Light to not only our friends and love ones but also everyone we meet.  In Charles Dicken's Christmas Carol, Scrooge comments that his boss Feziwig how the power to make his burden heavy or light.  What a beautiful sentiment.  Easing the burden of others just by a simple interaction. 

As I have grown and matured, I have this sense that there is an urgent need to counteract pessimism in our society and even more importantly our youth.  With the past two years of the Covid pandemic that shut down our normal everyday lives, the Fear in our lives has been amplified to historic levels. 

For many of us it has been one of the most significant experiences in our lives and similar to the historic world events of the Great Depression or WWII. The recent Pandemic experience combined with today's Climate Change rhetoric as left many of us with a dour, pessimistic, even fatalistic view of life. This has impacted the psyche, outlooks, and attitudes of children and youth tremendously. 

We the adults that have more experience dealing and overcoming adversities in our lives have a responsibility to teach, parent, and lead by example. We must share and inform that throughout history and the millennium we have overcome every human and natural tragedy and so it is with today. 

What is essential message that we should tell ourselves and our children, simply that "Everything will be OK, everything will work out, every that happens in our lives, will be overcome"

We as the elders and the adults of society must counteract the hysteria which is elevating anxiety and depression levels.  We and our children and over medicated. We need to limit our and our children's exposure to violence and pessimism in our media, social media, entertainment, music, and every day interactions.  We must protect the innocence and idealism of childhood and youth and let them move into adolescence and adulthood in a normal and traditional manner.  Our anxieties and fears should not become our children's and it is our collective responsibility to promote and ensure their happiness but also our Own!  And naturally the overarching goal of Parenting.  It is our fiduciary responsibility!

So, let's us be Steward of Happiness and Optimism.  Let us be the Light and remember the blessed Gift of Life that we and our children share and live from that highest ideal no matter what the daily circumstances of life may bring. 

With Love,

Coach K