{"id":4974,"date":"2018-02-05T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2018-02-05T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T14:09:42","slug":"love-life-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/2018\/02\/love-life-now.html","title":{"rendered":"What I Love About My Life Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I wrote the column&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"T6Wq9lsxxq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/2018\/02\/god-cleans-house.html\">When God Cleans Your House<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;When God Cleans Your House&#8221; &#8212; How Great Thou Part\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/2018\/02\/god-cleans-house.html\/embed#?secret=6WYXvy8twp#?secret=T6Wq9lsxxq\" data-secret=\"T6Wq9lsxxq\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>It made me realize though divorce is definitely about significant losses, I now see it as just life re-arranged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/files\/2018\/02\/pexels-photo-207962.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4976 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/374\/2018\/02\/pexels-photo-207962-300x188.jpeg\" alt=\"pexels-photo-207962\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And guess what? I love my life now! I know! Can you believe it?! I will attest to feeling emotionally chewed up and spit out many times over. A fact you all certainly know as you read my musings. You can&#8217;t experience divorce without this. Well, I guess a few charmed individuals may but the majority do not.<\/p>\n<p>The shedding of so many emotions and a few people has left my world quiet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s a beautiful quiet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no longer significant angst. No more trying to please people. No more begging to be heard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And there is also a peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The kind of peace that accompanies true spirituality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>When I wrote\u00a0<em>When God Cleans Your House,<\/em> I understood my resistance had shifted into acceptance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My worldview altered from trying to control the cascading losses to understanding they were necessary. I remember one day sitting in my marriage counselor&#8217;s office and telling him I both loved my now smaller world but internally felt somewhat conflicted since I had always kept a much larger world.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, I was trying to convey that I felt both &#8216;comfortable&#8217; and &#8216;uncomfortable&#8217; with a new reality.<\/p>\n<p>He essentially said it was healthier to have taken a minimalistic approach as in the past my larger world was actually the less healthy version. I was trying to please too many people, spreading myself emotionally thin and that is both consuming and exhausting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s a wondrous thing this feeling of surrender I know have.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I feel blessed. Scratch that. I feel incredibly blessed to have this new direction in my life. Hard to believe when I once felt divorce akin to erasing an entire life built.<\/p>\n<p>When we are going through hardship we remind ourselves to Trust in God and we pray. Yet, it takes a spiritual giant to let go immediately. We are human. We pray and somehow at times, still attempt to control the outcome anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>aka, resistance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This is what I love about my life now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s beautifully quiet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because my resistance has shifted into acceptance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow me on Facebook @Colleen Orme National Columnist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Photo courtesy of Pexels)<\/p>\n<p>on Twitter @colleenorme<br \/>\non Pinterest @colleensheehyorme<br \/>\nE-mail: Colleen.Sheehy.Orme@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I wrote the column&#8230; When God Cleans Your House It made me realize though divorce is definitely about significant losses, I now see it as just life re-arranged. And guess what? I love my life now! I know! 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