Sit with your uncertainties for a bit. Name them. Acknowledge them. Accept that most of them will still be with you tomorrow and that, in most cases, feeling certain or uncertain about a thing will not significantly affect what tomorrow actually has in store. Pick one concern that could benefit from attention and attend to it: research, seek advice, talk it through with a friend, journal your thoughts, listen, pray…

“Moon over Half Dome” – Ansel Adams

Lent: X

O, teach me to untangle hope
from hope that’s false,
and lead me farther down the winding path
and whatever else

you think I need, because the angle
of the woven slope
of love and grief is steep. Unless the bind
is by design.

— Maurice Manning