Sunday, July 1, 2012

"Breathe and Pray"



The past couple of weeks I've been a bit down on my luck. Here's a list of some of the unfortunate events: lost my glasses while rafting on the Animas River(had to wear sunglasses full time for two weeks), one of my campers flipped over her handle bars while biking and I had to take her to the ER to get stitches(talk about paperwork), misinterpreted directions and got lost for almost an hour somewhere between Colorado and Flagstaff, one of my campers became severely dehydrated and had to be taken to the ER(that's definitely one to grow on), had a blown out tire in the middle of nowhere Utah, nearly ran out of gas in the middle of the night on a rocky curvy mountainous road. 


Now, how in the world did I make it through all of that without having a major panic attack? Well for that I have to say thanks Mom for your infinite wisdom. She has always told me something like this, "When things get hard just breathe and pray, because life is what happens when you are busy making plans."  Each time something difficult happened, I'd find myself repeating that over and over in my head, taking that nugget of wisdom and using it to help me out. I found it relaxed me and in some cases I even shared it with my campers and they found it helpful too. 


Do you have any inspirational quotes from your childhood that help you out? If so please share, if not I hope you can use this one. :) 




~Daisy