A QUARTET OF INNER STRENGTHS

 Positive focus

Hope

Patience

Calling forth this trio of well practiced inner strengths and then picturing myself braiding them together will hopefully offer my mental stamina a strongly bonded sense of peace of mind though I know full well that My Fixer can do nothing to stave off this current attack of COVID from running rampant through home after home.

What My Fixer can do is to keep me at home with Will in hopes that this current storm of COVID will pass over my newly repaired Ark.

For example, groceries, ordered on line, yesterday, will be delivered to our front door between ten and noon, today.

BTW—Did you catch the subtle change in my mindset as seen in yesterday’s post?  Rather than hoping that my loved ones do not catch COVID, my hope suggests that if COVID does invade their good health, the attack is mild.

This exemplifies my intuitive choice to change my original attitude at least enough to accept whatever is taking place throughout the world, today—as long as my personal sense of disaster is not imminent.  Bottom line, I’ve found that each subtle change for the better in terms of the elasticity of my mindset helps to lessen the frequency of sudden spikes of anxiety.

Each time I think to refortify my sense of positive focus with a hopeful abundance of patience, guess what strengthens?

My connection to courage, thus rounding out the quartet of inner strengths, which, upon harmonizing soothingly together, are naturally calming.

And here’s why I know that today’s post was penned by the courage of of my conviction—

This post was actually written yesterday morning, and though COVID continues to surge throughout the world and Barry, Tony, Steven and Ravi remain unwell, my quartet of inner strengths held anxiety at bay throughout the entire day.

👩🏻Annie (I thought you might like to know that the absence of a smiling emoji reflects the serious nature of this pandemic as we all await the first glimmer of light, brightening our hopes that the end of this tunnel will actually, one day, be clearly sighted)