Real Energy Only™️

Today, when the markets were plummeting, I had a dark chocolate with my coffee. These are wrapped with pithy sayings on the inside. Today's read, "Good energy only!"  If I were making chocolates, and making wrappers with sayings printed on them, I would edit this one to "Real energy only!" 

When I read the wrapper before I edited it, a phrase my mom from Georgia used to say went through my mind: "They can kiss Ol' Maude backing up!"  My mom was a sassy and colorful character. 

There's a reason that Kate Bowler's book Everything Happens and her social media resonates with me. It's honest. It acknowledges the totality of life. Hard things happen. And to pretend they do not is to hide from reality, and perhaps miss some solutions. (Just ask AI the question "what are the pros and cons of positive thinking?")

It's true that what we think about influences our actions, and that influences our lives. But I'm on Real Energy Only™️  which acknowledges what is happening. We celebrate it or we mourn and do our best to solve problems. We don't ignore. 

There's a whole lot of reality going on right now, and we cannot ignore it.