Each day you wonder
what will happen that will change the course of your current situation in life.
What will be that thing or that event that you cannot ignore or turn away from?
What will be done, will you have to do, or will happen that will set your life
on a different course, place you on the proper course or stop you dead in your
track and make you re-evaluate everything you think you know about life and
yourself? Some things happen that
change the paradigm that we have built our lives around. Some things we have
the power to change because we can see the patterns of our behavior or there
are logical outcomes based on the situations but there are also instances where
you have no idea that certain events will occur. When you don't know something is going to
happen, you cannot avoid that event from happening.
Most people see
situations on the news or hear others speak of certain misfortunes or tragedies
and think "man, I'm sure glad that's not me." but when it is you, how
can you cope? What do you have inside of
you that will help you carry on through the roughest of time without wanting to
give up and throw in the towel?
Most people have
their source of strength and belief system that gives them the coping skills
even when they aren't sure they can fully give themselves to those systems at
the moment when they are grasping to hold onto what they know vs what they
feel. I am a woman of faith. I have
unwavering faith in God that has been tested time and time again but even in
the moments I feel that maybe, just maybe God has decided not to keep me in his
direct or peripheral view, I am still His child and that doesn't mean He
doesn't love me or isn't paying attention.
We all have our moments when life takes you for a loop but what is that
thing that brings you back to the reality that, in the simplest way I can put
it, "Life Happens"?
No person is exempt
from bad things happening. People would like to reserve all bad events for the
people who do bad things, hurt people, are mean and evil but the truth is that
life doesn't discriminate. Good and bad
happen to all people. The important
thing is to always understand that so that whatever happens, you won't have a
false sense of undeserved events or God being unfair for "letting"
something happen to you. You are human.
Life happens to humans. People live. Everyone at some point will die regardless
of how long we want to live. We don't
want to see our loved ones hurt or die but even if you have the good fortune to
live a life with minimum tragic events, you will experience some pain even if
indirectly.
As I write this I am
sitting in a hospital waiting room in PG County, MD where my brother-in-law is
in ICU due to someone hitting him with a car while he was walking home two
nights ago. The person hit him, got out of
the car and fled, leaving my brother-in-law in the road. This situation could have been much worse had
it not been for a pedestrian passing by and called 911 to get him help. What is
amazing is even though he suffered a broken pelvis, broken wrist, broken nose,
punctured lung, broken bones near his eye, broken ribs and a few more
injuries...O_O, he was able to laugh, pray and talk a little. I am ever grateful at the spirit which he carries with him because without his
faith and the drive to live and have a more abundant quality of life with the
gift of a second chance, his healing may not be as complete as it can be. I
believe our attitude and level of faith has a great deal to do with how you
heal.
His spirits are
wonderful for a man who is in so much pain. He expresses his love to all his
friends and family and those who didn't even know him but interceded in prayer
on his behalf. I admire the drive to
simply survive but when you want to live you will yourself to get through the
pain. He will be okay. I believe and trust he will be. I love my brother and when he hurts, our
whole family hurts. When he is in need,
we are all available to help him.
Life tends to come
out of left field and tackle you but as long as life is present, you can get up
and move forward even if the steps are short and someone has to hold you
up. KEEP GOING!!!
