APX-V-0013
“I provided for my family through a stretch that nearly broke me.”
Holding the line when it nearly breaks you, and holding it for others, is the definition of this tenet in action. What you carried was real. The people you held up may never fully know the weight. That doesn't diminish the act.
Your Practice
Now that you're through the hard stretch, take stock of what it cost you personally. Rest is not weakness, it is maintenance. Identify one thing you neglected about yourself during that period and give it deliberate attention this week. You cannot protect others long-term if you run yourself to empty.
The Architects
“The sage, wishing to be above men, puts himself by his words below them, and, wishing to be before them, places his person behind them.”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, ch. 66, James Legge translation (Sacred Books of the East vol. 39, 1891)