UP AND DOWN

The Up and Down of the Ocean: 

         Watch the ocean or any body of water for that matter, what do you see? You see an undulating motion, a movement that cycles from up to down, from low to high, this action constantly occurs. All things on the water bob up and down; similarly, in life we move up and down as well, we go up and down with what life gives us or takes away.

         We as people, associate the notion of up with feeling good, with pleasure, with feeling ecstatic, happy with ourselves and our life. In reality the truth is that life is never a bed of roses, we are guaranteed to experience “the down” many times in our life.

        The problem is, is that people sometimes choose not to look at the big picture, they fail to see the downs in relation to the ups, it is like looking at a picture but only seeing a small piece of what that picture is. We need to understand that up and down go hand in hand, they are forever intertwined, just as tall and short, night and day, dark and light, we cannot have one without the other.

1.       How has your life been like an up and down wave? How has it been “up” and how has it been “down?”

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2.       How are you going to cope with the “down times” in your life?

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3.       Think about this, if you did not have any “down” times in your life----how would you know you were experiencing any “up” times?”

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