I've never really been able to figure life out. When I look around, I imagine it is the same situation for most people. We do the best we can with what we've got, and sometimes it's enough, sometimes it's not.
Sometimes life throws unexpected curveballs at us. Sometimes it throws many in one day and none of them are particularly good. If we're strong, we deal with them the best we can, telling ourselves that it will all work out ok, some how, some way. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes things happen that have a lasting effect and impact many generations to come. I guess this is what 'the sins of the Fathers will visit the sons' means.
Life is filled with irony. Here it is Earth Day and a major environmental and human disaster is playing out in the Gulf of Mexico. Things like this happen, most often when you least expect them, or when you're least prepared for them. This is what life is like.
Although I'm not a religious person, I do have my beliefs. I believe, for instance, that the universe is all one being.
The fact that we each have a separate consciousness, and yet are part of this one being, is a great mystery and miracle to me. Of course, everywhere I look there are miracles.
It's the beauty in the miracles that keeps us all going; that keeps us filled with hope that tomorrow will be ok. That tomorrow things will be better. That tomorrow everything will make sense again.
The fact that miracles seem to occur more in some areas than others is still a great mystery to me. Why are some lives filled with misery and tragedy while some others seem to be profoundly blessed from the start?
I've never been able to figure that one out.
I've always thought there should be some rhyme or reason to life and that once we understood what that rhyme or reason was all about, everything would run more smoothly.
I realize now that no one, and I mean no one, is able to totally figure out what that rhyme or reason is all about and no one life is immune to tragedy or heartache. 
This is how life is.
We make the best of what we have; of who we are and if we do the best to love and support those who are in our lives, life will move forward as best it can and perhaps, just perhaps, some tragedy or heartache somewhere will be averted.
This is how life works. It's not entirely up to us; but a big part of it is.
We each have the ability to make a difference; for the earth, and for each other.
The other stuff, the things we can't control, well I guess they can be mitigated somewhat by the way we live our lives from day to day.
©2010JoSmith
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