The Level

A few people have asked about the title of this blog “It’s All About the Level”. 

In 1999 my husband Jim and I traveled to what is now our permanent home in Florida to participate in a weekend course called UYO, Understanding Yourself and Others. In this course, there were discussions and demonstrations showing, much like a builder, the importance of having a tool belt. Naturally anyone building anything knows that a tool belt keeps everything available for use when it is needed. This concept was incorporated into learning to change your life and the tools that would be useful doing that.

Being a very literal person, my tool belt, at the time, consisted of a hammer to pound my point across, a screw driver to tighten my resolve, nails for security and finally, and the most important for me then and now, is the level.

In building a house for instance, if the walls aren’t straight and don’t align with the floor and ceiling, the house won’t work because it isn’t level. Same thing in life. If my happiness and peace are not level, if they are not treated as the most precious possessions I have, then nothing will line up. I will be bitchy, crabby and out of sorts. I will worry about everything and everyone and I won’t take care of myself.

There have been many challenges in my life this past 12 months including illness and death and I have lost that level many times. During those times, life was difficult, the challenge of the day more than necessary.

When I once again found my level, I discovered this pool of strength that keeps me going, keeps me strong and on the days when I want to curl up in a corner, feel sorry for myself and cry I allow that to happen because it is part of being level and whole.