Just Getting Through The Day

We're not in survival mode right now, but I thought I'd blog about it a little bit.

We have our challenges--we always have our challenges.  But sometimes they're more challenging challenges, and sometimes they're less challenging challenges.

When the challenges are at their challengiest, we say we've entered survival mode.  When you're in survival mode, you're just trying to make it through the day.  Is the house still standing at the end of the day?  Is everyone still alive and breathing?  Then you're good, and that's as much as you can hope for.

Paperwork piling up?  Oh, yeah.  Household chores not done?  You betcha.  Social and family life and contacts?  Not happening.  Creative pursuits?  On the VERY back burner.  Eating right and exercising?  Not today, buddy.  Any kind of rest or relaxation or recreation?  Yeah, right.

It's survival mode.  There's some crisis that's so big and so immediate and so urgent and so all-consuming that it occupies every ounce of energy and attention you have.

We've been in survival mode a number of times here and there over the years.  It's exhausting.

We had a couple of bad moments a few days back when it looked like we were heading for survival mode again.  We may have dodged a bullet on that one--survival mode only lasted a few hours, and I think we headed it off at the pass.  Still not quite daring to breathe a sigh of relief just yet, but hopeful.

There are lots of people living in survival mode, and if you're one of them, friend, you have my prayers and my sympathy.  It's not a fun place to be.

Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.