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LIFE MAKES OTHER PLANS

Recently I was scheduled to attend a week of what I thought was going to be a challenge for me but a blissful one at the same time. I had registered for a week of meditation at an upstate Yoga and Health Center I have been going to for years with much success, always walking away with deep sense of fulfillment and peace. However, life had completely other plans for me in the past few weeks. My father was going to die quite suddenly and not only was my “schedule for serenity” off the books, but now I had to prepare myself for something quite different – a most certain death of the man who raised me and I have known his whole life of 91 years. In less than 24 hours, I had to book flights, cancel every client , and make many other arrangements. For the next two weeks, my life would be anything but my own, hardly blissful. As fate would have it , he did not die, being the feisty Irishman that he can be, but now I had a new task — to help my father realize that his entire lifestyle is gone, an upheaval that has altered all facets. He will need to go into an assisted living situation after a long period in rehab where he is learning to use his limbs again. This is a man that has epitomized the definition of independence. I think of the many veterans who come back from serving their country without limbs, or broken in spirit and the meaning of the word ACCEPTANCE takes on multiple meanings— meanings that so many of us don’t have to consider in our hearts and minds on a minute to minute basis. We remain oblivious. So, now for a period of time I have the opportunity to have a changed, and certainly more spiritual relationship with my father. He will need my help in ways I can and cannot give it. He will need to be in the care of caregivers 24/7. Both he and I will need to work on this new level of acceptance in ways we will discover together — Life’s unseen adventures. Please visit my website for more info, rkanetherapy.com

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