Some Ideas for Being an Awesome Human - COVID and Beyond

This is post has been reblogged from "Girl Catch Fire" by our friend, Erin Kirk.

 

🍀 Define for yourself what your new normal is. Don't leave that to anybody else - the government, the marketplace, the media. 

🍀Use whatever is in your hands to encourage people around you. 

🍀 When someone is overwhelmed by big emotions, don’t try to fix it or blue-sky it for them. Just sit quietly with them and witness it. 

🍀 Give as much money as you can to food banks because they always need it.

🍀 If you mow your lawn today, mow someone else’s too. 

🍀 Write love letters to people you don’t see much and drop them in the mail. 

🍀 Walk barefoot outside and say hello to everyone who passes, maybe even introduce yourself. 

🍀 Visit your local park and pick up trash. 

🍀 When you have the choice, drive less and rest more. 

🍀 Make cards with your kids for nursing home residents who can’t or don’t see their families. 

🍀 Ask your essential worker neighbors how you can support them. Don’t assume they’re okay because they haven’t asked for help. ASK THEM!

 

The Aspirational Gap

Most of us know we live with a gap between the person we are and the one we want to be. It seems Coronavirus has invited us to take a hard look at that gap and how we might begin closing it.

♥️ Maybe when we do reopen, we’ll choose not to pick up our old frenetic ways. 

♥️ Maybe we will sit longer, rest more and dwell in the presence of God, rather than filling every second with busy-ness.

♥️ Maybe we’ll maintain some of the rhythms we’ve developed with our kids. 

♥️ Maybe we’ll be more mindful with our spending, I know economists don’t like that, but our consumer habits are part of what makes us rush around in a panic. 

♥️ Maybe without that pressure, we’ll even be more patient with each other. 

♥️ Maybe we’ll keep singing from our porches, just to encourage those struggling among us.