Finding Ease In Heavy Moments
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And now, on to today’s message.
This week’s poem is dedicated to anyone who feels like the load they’re carrying right now is a little too heavy.
If today feels like too much, I wish you a tomorrow when everything feels even the slightest bit easier. I wrote this poem for you. I hope it helps you feel seen in all that you are shouldering.
A Message To God
When you’re making your choices for the days to come
And deciding on my fate
I had the smallest request to make:
Could you not put anything new on my plate?
I know I can’t see through your eyes,
But still, I must assume
That other people’s plates right now
Might have a bit more room
For those feeling overwhelmed by the weight of what they’re carrying, I leave you with three short ideas that I hope might help you.
1. When things are hard, try to take life one breath at a time.
2. Someone I know signs his emails with this Albert Camus quote:
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Try to remember that invincible summer, that inner luminosity you possess. I promise it’s always there.
3. There’s a quote from the Persian poet Rumi that says “The wound is the place where the light enters you”. In moments of my own life that have felt more challenging, I’ve often taken that quote as a reminder that what’s painful today might one day become a source of wisdom or connection.
Wishing you all ease and calm,
Ari
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Thanks for this touching and very timely message, Ari as I bear the emotional weight of the transition of my mother, Mary Hickson whose leaf fell from our family tree on February 14th and who was laid to rest on February 26, 2026, after what she would call ninety-six beautiful years of life.