Just a Small Step

From the Mary El Tarot, the Four of Cups; from the OH Cards, Steps/Threat:

We all have days when we feel like this shell - one moment we're in our element enjoying life and the next we're tossed up on dry sand. We are discontent and lethargic, without the energy to motivate us to action. If we feather a nest for this mood, it will just hang around longer, letting us become comfortable with our discomfort. Steps and the word card Threat suggest that change is needed, but we assume the devil we know is safer than the devil we don't. Yet just taking one small step in a different direction each day, no matter how inconsequential it might seem, will eventually get us to the doorway. Move slowly with determination, and that dark mood will begin to shift too.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.

— Anne Lamott