Lowering Your Gaze

                                        

Sometimes it all seems like way too much. Why are some days overwhelming? Yesterday I didn’t feel like I had insurmountable tasks in front of me but today I do. A tight feeling comes into my chest, my breath quickens. As far as my eye can see are obstacles in my way. How will I ever be able to do all of these things? Then I hear a whisper “lower your gaze”.

And I stop looking into the horizon of what I can not possibly get done and look right in front of me and start with the first thing I see, then the next and the next. The tightness leaves, I can take a deep breath.