Handling Warfare With Grace, And Other Lessons Learned From My Dad’s Cancer Diagnosis
We are a lot richer than we think. We have more than we need and want. At the end of the day all we have is now. And in this now, I am grateful that I have my father.
Sometimes I feel guilty for being so emotionally distraught over a situation my dad is completely at peace with, and I guess this is one of the final lessons my dad has to teach me as his daughter: that it is okay to handle the shit life throws at us with grace. After all, we can’t control these things.
Sometimes, magick is as simple as feeling our emotions and alchemizing our pain into higher wisdom. Sometimes, we don’t need to remove negative circumstances but lean into them. This is where our breakthroughs lie. After all, there is not enough magick in the world to bypass grief forever. At some point you must surrender and feel the heaviness and discomfort.
The wisdom I received was in learning how to let go. I needed to learn how to feel deeply, as I was used to working around the clock to numb myself from facing any situations that made me sad. I needed to be shown what was most important to me. And who was most important to me.
The daily stresses of being alive can have us caught up in a whirlwind of bills, problems, regrets, and wanting things we don’t…
