Who among us is not currently aware of the many things that have gone totally wrong this year? We have seen New Orleans and the gulf coast destroyed by a category 4 hurricane, with countless people, still today, left homeless, jobless, separated from their families and not knowing when, if ever, they can return home. Now we have learned of yet another hurricane, Rita, considered to be the third deadliest in history developing stamina as it heads towards the coast of Galveston, Texas. Two separate hurricanes, with horrific consequences, considered the second and third worst in history occurring less than a month apart. I watched today as a Jet Blue plane, that had left from Burbank, California had problems with the landing gear and had to make a quite spectacular emergency landing. Thankfully, there was a happy ending as the pilot brought the plane down with no one injured. What is becoming of the world with all of these events colliding together as if on a collision course to disaster? How can one explain or even understand the unexplainable?
When things like this occur, it helps to look at what we have inside our own lives to make us grateful. I look at all of life's blessings when feeling a sense of helplessness. My husband, my children, my grandchildren, my pets, my dear friends, and all of the gifts that seem to constitute the porous thread holding all of our lives together.
Life so so fragile - We can see it here before our eyes, and forget how precious it, and everything else around us is. In times of pain and sorrow, we must be mindful of who we are and what we have to offer the world, and to thank God for each and every one of them.
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