Whatever Happens, I Will Meet the Moment

For several months now, I’ve been wrestling with a decision many people eventually face when a new chapter of life begins: Should I downsize and sell my family home?

For twenty-five years, this house has held the tapestry of my life. It is where I raised my family, built a business, celebrated life’s joys, and grieved profound losses. It has been a place of comfort, belonging, and countless memories.

Yet as I age, I now feel drawn toward a simpler life—with less to maintain, fewer possessions to care for, and more space for what matters most.

On the surface, it seems like a practical decision. Beneath the surface, however, another conversation has been unfolding. I’ve been wrestling with deeper questions about security and freedom. What is freedom? What is security?

The longer I sat with these questions another one emerged—one that was deeper, and far more intriguing.

What is security, anyway?

I know we live in an uncertain world, and attempting to control every variable is a fool’s game. Markets rise and fall. Health changes. Relationships evolve. Life itself is inherently uncertain. Yet I noticed a strong part of me that was continually pushing, trying to control those uncertainties—as though control itself could deliver security.

As I continued to ponder this question, I realized I had been searching for security where it simply doesn’t exist.

Security is not resting in the belief that nothing difficult will happen or believing that I can shield myself from life’s uncertainties, especially as I age. As I contemplated this, a new insight began to emerge.

Security is trusting that, whatever happens, I will meet the moment.

That realization brought a surprising sense of peace—and with it, freedom.

Perhaps you’ve experienced this in your own life. When you look back, you can probably identify moments you never would have chosen—losses, disappointments, unexpected turns—and yet you found your way through them. You may not have liked those experiences, but you met them. Maybe our confidence doesn’t come from knowing what the future holds. Rather it comes from remembering what you’ve faced and already met.

This is my Creator essence guiding me and inviting myself to trust that in the midst of so much change, I can meet the moment. That I am capable and whole.

I can’t predict the future, but I have something even more valuable: evidence that I can meet whatever life presents. I’ve already faced heartbreak, loss, unexpected change, and difficult decisions. I didn’t choose those moments, but I met them. I adapted. I learned and I grew.

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US independence, we naturally think of freedom as something won through hard-fought wars and hopefully protected by laws reflecting fairness and equality. That matters deeply and is something to celebrate, but at this stage of my life, I have discovered another kind of personal freedom.

It is an inner freedom that comes from no longer outsourcing my peace to external circumstances, false narratives, or to certainties that do not exist. Instead, I trust my inner authority, a theme I explored in last week’s blog.

I trust my values. I trust my resilience. I trust my capacity to learn, adapt, and respond.

I trust that whatever happens, I will meet the moment.

That is the freedom and the peace I was searching for all along.

Perhaps this is the deepest independence any of us can claim.

Until next time, here’s to the Creator in you.

Donna

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