Emotional fitness

Reading a column in this morning’s paper about a design psychologist — a person who helps people understand their personalities in order to create homes or offices that are an emotional fit for them.

Some people I know would have an emotional fit over the notion that people can and will pay for the services of a design psychologist while Rome burns. As I watch our local government prepare to close 50% of our public libraries and lay off hundreds of school teachers, it’s hard not to wonder if we, as a society, have left our priorities in our other jeans.

So my spiritual challenge is to give it my best shot to be emotionally fit when it’s so tempting — so much easier — to to have an emotional fit.

For me, that begins with remembering that I do not have all the answers. I may not have any of the answers. It’s been a revelation to me that I am most in touch with my best self…with the source of love and truth and grace that I know as God…when I keep in mind that the only thing I know for certain is that I don’t have a clue. And that leaves me with no choice but to tap that source of love and truth and grace for answers to life’s spiritual and emotional challenges.

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