Aloneness

Aloneness at times can be preferable to a relative or friend bickering with you over real or imagined difficulties. The uncertainty of these times on multiple levels tend to breed bickering among relatives and friends and one must be mature enough to stop this and realize where it is coming from before it damages relationships. Once you see it is mostly from the times we live in with the stress everyone is encountering now then one can often rise above the difficulties and see that they are not being personally blamed or attacked but that people are just scared all over.

Sometimes, just getting away to nature somewhere nearby and being quiet and looking at the birds, water, ocean, seashore, river, mountain, desert or whatever nature is nearby you in the form of a city, county or national park can renew a person so they can regain a useful perspective during these difficult times. Though many people's investments are doing 40% better or more since last year, most people who don't have a job yet aren't feeling the change except that they might be getting a little more temporary work here and there to make it through to the next full time job.

So, aloneness in nature can give all or most of us a better perspective of who we are and what is going on and what the future will bring. I wouldn't say I'm an optimist like some of you and I include my wife in this group but I do believe in miracles, of God changing absolutely everything in my life and others lives when it is the right time. So, even though sometimes it feels like God has turned us inside out and pulled out heads out of our butts, still we need to be grateful when those miracles arrive. For without accepting the miracles and being grateful for them many of us just don't make it. So be ready for your miracle to arrive so you don't accidentally turn your back on God's miracle for your life.

There is a story I like about a man in a flood, He said, "God send me a way to survive this Flood!" So then he saw a log going by with a man on it, the man said, "It's okay God's going to save me." Then God sent a raft by and the man didn't get on but said, "It's okay. God is going to save me."  And then a boat came by, and still the man said, "It's okay God's going to save me." and Finally God sent a helicopter to save the man, and instead of getting on the helicopter the man said, "It's okay. God is going to save me." Finally the man drowned and went to talk to God and the man said to God, "Why didn't you ever save me, God?" God sort of gave the man an angry look and said, "What did you think the log, the raft, the boat and the helicopter were?"

So if God sends you a log, or raft, or boat, or helicopter don't forget to save yourself through the vehicles God sends.