03/04/2025
"As waves find you, may steadiness find you, too. As waves crash with doubt over your thoughts and fear rises like a storm, shifting the horizon, may you notice what remains steady, even if it’s small. Like a lighthouse following its rhythm, steadiness moves in quiet patterns and continues its cycle, and you are free to look for it amid the waves.
Lighthouse mechanisms turn with precision, sending out sweeping patterns of lightbeams that pierce through rain and mist. A rotating lens directs these beams in a steady rhythm, circling out over the ocean and up through the sky, offering a reliable guide regardless of the chaos around them. The lighthouse keeps turning, its beams sweeping out on schedule. Steadiness can be like that — a rhythm that repeats, even when the waves crash and the sky shifts.
You can look for the steady pattern of these lightbeams, too. The moments when you pause and take a breath. The quiet signals that it’s time for a break, and the times you tell someone, “I can’t do that today.” The times you say “no” are steady points, too. Even when the storm clouds shift the sky, notice the bits of relief, clarity, and control you can return to. These moments might slip away, but they come back — just like the beam circles back. Pursuing steadiness doesn’t need to stop when things change; it continues, quietly repeating, even in the middle of everything.
Just like waves that rise and fall, life’s demands can feel endless. It makes sense to feel their weight. But like the lighthouse’s beams that keep turning through the night, you can still notice what holds steady. These moments are there, repeating quietly. The boundaries you’ve set, the breaks you’ve taken, the times you’ve made a hard decision — these things still matter, no matter how loud the waves get. The lighthouse remains steady in the storm, its base holding strong against the wind. Focus on what is steady, right here, amid the waves.
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