DISASTERS AND A HIGHER DESTINY

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Disasters can destroy you, or deliver you to a higher destiny. It's your choice. Damage control is in the hands of the believer...the ones who choose to meet the challenges head on...those who learn to grin and bear it...to get up -and get going-especially when the going gets rough.

Gustav gave us a run for our money...costing us time, emotional energy and a whole lot of media publicity...Nothings perfect, but this time-we got a lot more right, than we got wrong. That's progress. I left the city at 9:30pm and drove 8 straight hours to my destination--the sunshine and sandy beaches of San Destin Florida. It was a fluke...or better yet... a Godincidence...My friends secured a sudden opening at a condo...just before the crowd of evacuees poured in...big enough for them and for me-- and my rugrats...We watched impending doom from the shores of the most beautiful beaches on this side of the Pacific Ocean. I felt blessed and safe and sorry all at the same time..Blessed that my children were safe....sorry that so many people had to scramble to find shelter...those who boarded buses headed for safety in towns and cities several hundred miles from home. They're the real survivors. The ones I admire most...we sat in long lines of traffic-in our air conditioned cars...they squeezed into packed buses--in the heat and the congestion and the not knowing where they would wind up.

They would soon find out...what we all found out...what we all learn every time the fear of Gustav or God or some God forsaken trauma touches our lives...We are stronger than we think...we have it in us...to make it through just about anything...to survive just about anything we put our minds to...In fact, we are born to survive...to make the most out of a "bad" situation...to turn the tide in our favor...for our future...for the future of our humanity.

Disasters are like mini doses of divine energy...designed to dare us to leap higher than we ever dreamed possible...designed to inspire us to dig ourselves out of the despairing rubble that threatens our demise...designed to keep us focused on the present, so that the future will become naturally brighter. Our destiny's are set, but our choices are not...so keep in mind, the strong will survive...and the survival of the fittest depends on the will to survive...and the wanting what we know deep within our souls is the way and the truth and the light...As dumb as it may sound...disasters by design, are veiled gifts --graced with good intentions---but shrouded in a fog of fear that can only be lifted by the human will to not only survive--but to want to survive.

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