October 18, 2026- Focus on love

Life taught you how to fight. May love teach you how to live.

~Thema Bryant

Just because we can doesn’t mean that we should. We do what we need to just to survive in this world, but we don’t need to spend our entire lives in survival mode. We don’t need to live in constant fear of when the other shoe will drop. We don’t have to walk around constantly ready for the next battle, all because we have experienced battles before.

Do we want to exist in a hyper state of vigilance all the time, perpetually preparing for the next attack from the circumstances around us? Wouldn’t we prefer to focus on living better, on loving better? Wouldn’t we like to be as prepared for the next opportunity as we are for the next struggle?

We don’t need to bury our heads in the sand and pretend that everything is going to start consistently going our way. We can accept the fact that hardship is in our future without ignoring all the beauty in our present.

Let’s focus on love and see what happens. Let’s disenroll from the school of hard knocks right now. Let’s lean into the beauty that life has to offer us. We are wise and battle-tested already. We will be prepared for the next battle, whenever it may come, by allowing ourselves to thrive and love life until then.