Irene's Bringing Doughnuts

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”     Og Mandino

             So I'm driving to work one morning, dreading it as so many of us do. I was new to an office that didn't like change and I was there to change it up. I knew it was going to be a hard day. As I approached the parking lot, a funny resolve came into me as I thought of the women who worked at the front desk, Irene, the gatekeeper. As small voice within said "Irene's bringing doughnuts!" and something really remarkable happened. I was able to observe myself as I went through the process, in the time it took to park my car, of turning my mindset to one of acceptence while at the same time understanding she was my "in" to this company. If Irene accepted me, the others would too. It turned out to be a great day and a great success overall.  

     In the grieving process, acceptence in the final step. When we finally give into the flow of life is when we decide to go on living. When our son was diagnosed with autism, I didn't think I could go on. But I was forced into the realization that I didn't believe I could live through it because I didn't want to live through it. It's easy to say "I can't do it'. But when we are faced with life, whatever the circumstances are, we do! We do it every moment of every day . When we find this place of resolution, there is a part of our brain that kicks in and we begin to move from death to re-birth.

     I believe we struggle against death, in all forms, because we fail to understand that re-birth happens at exactly the same moment. Life is a series of deaths from the moment of our birth. We move from infancy to adulthood and there is not a single death that doens't give way to a new life. There is profound truth to be found here for those who have eyes to see it.

Death will never overtake me because my True Will to live is immortal.