Nightshade Yesterday Today Tomorrow Life’s Curved Balls
I have been through two months of unplanned happenings which has kept me from my blogging so I thought I would just give an outline of how this can happen. I got two curved balls thrown at me.
When people talk about someone throwing them a curve ball, they are usually discussing some kind of intentional attempt to surprise.
I think we can receive many types of curved balls. Here are two that really surprised me and my entire group of family and friends in this last two-month period. It’s the way you handle a curved ball that will make the difference to your outlook.
An emotional curved ball is the greater challenge to handle and work through. There is also the reference to a cricket ball curving into the wicket after being bowled as a curved ball. Regardless, in both cases it’s a fait accompli (a thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept it).
We were setting up a baby shower for the birth of my ninth grand child when we received the news that my nephew would not make it to the party as he had been coughing so violently that he had caused a hernia and was in hospital under treatment and in an induced coma. It is quite difficult to continue to arrange a party with that sort of news hanging over your head, however, it is smile, laugh, and keep the guests happy. Three weeks followed of us keeping tabs throughout every hour of every day but in the end, at only 52 he passed over the ‘Rainbow Bridge’. As much as he is missed, we all celebrate his amazingness and accept his path.
On the day before his funeral my ninth grand child was born. A girl. How incredibly wonderful as there was now a pigeon pair in their family.
Whereas all had seemed lost there was now great joy and hope.
We expected her to come home almost immediately, but it took two weeks due to jaundice. Two weeks of further anxiety and concern but she is home now with her family, and all is well.
The thing is, we are not normally prepared ‘for a change in plan’. How do we suddenly accept and move on in this life of constant which is not being constant but more like constantly changing.
I do feel that when you have sorrow you will carry the scars in your heart but when you have joy you will carry that as well, thereby keeping yourself balanced. Acceptance, of a fait accompli situation is the way to go. It’s just how it is.
Take that curved ball and bowl it right back in thankfulness for the lessons learned.number 9