In adverse situations, a sense of impossiblity first overrides all else. However, feeling overwhelmed by the “I can’t” does not necessarily mean that we “cannot.”

It does not mean that we have sunk. It means that we are facing the truth of being unable to do something according to original plans. That is all it means.

The temporary despair that accompanies a sense of being overwhelmed quiets as we figure out another way to do what is important to us.

Limits just are.

from Dee Brauninger’s Holy E-mail