Calm in the Midst of Chaos

Dear Friends,

A couple of evenings ago the light became a particularly foreboding color of orangish-yellow.  The clouds smoothed over and looked like water, and for a while it looked like a big storm was brewing…said storm never really came to pass where I was, but it sure did look threatening.


In the midst of the threat, there appeared a huge rainbow across the sky…beauty and calm in the midst of what was threatening to be chaos.


Currently, in my own house, we’re doing some significant work to get it ready to put on the market…and let me tell you, it looks like a bomb went off in my house.  Every surface is covered with things and dust, whole areas of my house are torn up, the whole of my kitchen is currently in my dining room…it is not my happy environment to live in.


But a few things I keep coming back to during this time of chaos in my own life are, for one, this chaos is just for a limited time.  Yes, this is a time and space of chaos in my life, but it has an expiration date.  The other big thing I work on is how can I find calm in the midst of a chaos even when the chaos is hard to get away from.


These days one of those methods of calm in the midst of chaos is avoidance...I’ll avoid going downstairs when I’m not working on the house so I don’t have to spend more time than necessary in said chaos.  Another is daily reminders that this time and space has an expiration date.  The other thing I am really looking forward to is a vacation with my boys this coming week, where I am really hoping I can put this fixeruppering to the side, recognizing that it will be there for me when I get home, but I can spend this time away without it weighing me down…here’s hoping I can do that!


Sometimes the chaos is unavoidable, but there are spaces where we can find a little more calm in the midst of them.


I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.
Love
Krista