Some days seems like we are living near an abyss. The news is fascinated with scary stories, new breakouts, death counts, and possible treatments. The medical science may be scarier as highly contagious coronavirus is affecting more than lungs, attacking organs and causing blood clots. Seems like will be uncomfortable or worried forever.
If you have suffered from Covid-19, have sick friends or relatives, lost a loved one, or one of 26+ million & growing unemployed. Am sorry. Rehabilitation, recovery and grief are painful and take a long time. We miss people, our life is disrupted, finances affected, economies struggling, and the end is not in sight.
Life will go on. It always has. Treatments will be improved and successful. Vaccines will be developed and available. We will once again laugh, find work, travel, and see family and friends.
See two ~100 year old pine trees from my window. Trunks are ~3 feet thick and trees are ~70 feet tall. Some disease or discomfort caused the right had tree trunk to split into 2 separate trunks ~1/3 of the way up.
Look closely at the right hand trunk about 20 feet down from the top. The trunk broke completely off. A strong storm or lighting did it. Did this tragedy stop the tree from growing? No, it simply started growing new shoots off the side of the broken trunk. Every bit as healthy as the twin and neighbor.
These trees provide shelter and food to birds and animals. See eagles resting at the top, and smaller birds below.
You are going to be like this tree. After dislocation you are going to adapt, grow and thrive. You will mentor, advise, support and love family, friends and neighbors. Benefit from what we are going through. Hard times grow more faith than good times.
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