Would you agree with me? Most of the time life keeps sailing along, things go normal with some bumpy roads with ups and downs. Then we hear of a friend or two who have experienced recent turbulent situations.

It’s not even our own hurt, it’s a friend or relative. We feel something, a discomfort inside, then compassion and perhaps ideas come how we can reach out to them and gift them with something to soothe the pain or uplift their spirits.

I recently went to a trampoline indoor play facility where my relative and her family were celebrating a child’s birthday. I had not seen the relative in many months. She is busy with her young children, a husband and a full-time job. We live some distance from the family and see them usually on special occasions.

She recently had one of those turbulent experiences (as I label them) —when life stops being smooth and ordinary. Maybe we get bored or so frustrated even a negative is better than the grind of everyday life. In any event my relative went bounding off like a caged girl wondering what she was missing. Well, she met with misery. The husband and children became fearful about  her sanity and safety.

The jaunt to another life outside of her day to day life was short lived. Soon into her disruptive jaunt she realized it wasn’t going to work. She faced the music and returned home. Needless to say the young children delighted at their mother’s return home and the husband welcomed her back into his arm.

So, when I see her after knowing about the disruptive jaunt, I began crying so happy she was with her family, OK and serving the community again through her care-giving and health-care skills.

We are touched by others and by the way life tosses us a curve ball sometimes and we feel the pain. We feel empathy. I believe we as individuals are stirred inside, activating our healing juices along with our creative flow. We want to help, to give them a portion of our inner treasures and wellspring of blessings, healing vibes and generosity. 

Consequently, how I gave to my young relative was through writing. I wrote her of a time I did a similar thing. And of course learned much from the disruptive happening. I believe as a result of my letter she felt ministered to. I know she genuinely could feel my love and well-wishes for her. I honored her wisdom and knowledge within herself to heal and go on with a new found resilience that life demands of us sometimes.

We have such limberness inside us. I have another dear friend from grad school who was recently robbed. Her car was broken into and they took her backpack with a favorite teddy bear in it of many years, a computer and other personal items. I was saddened by her loss. However I know this woman; she is the exemplar of resiliency and stamina to keep on in believing good outcomes. The interesting thing was what occurred inside me.

Generosity of spirit poured out upon her. I decided to gift her a new teddy bear and followed through. Now this little guy has to fly many miles on Amazon’s wings to my dear friend. He will make it in a few days. I know she will feel the love already packed inside that teddy bear.

Furthermore, I am assured she will rebound and find the blessings and golden gems coming from and because of her losses. We can count on life being that way, compensating for the hardships, the sharp twists and turns in life and the abrupt changes happening in our midst. Life, our Universal God Source does not disappoint us.

Certainly, we have an innate strength and power Divine, which happens to be packed with grace, dynamo energy, new vision and faith here in us. It is our internal quality to rise above any loss or disruptive experience and decide life is unfolding better than it was before.  We have a well-spring of wealth and well-being already given and placed in us.

Hence, new prosperity arises from any loss or separation along with opportunities appearing for us. Why, because we have opened more deeply and touched the wisdom and love in our soul ready to ignite us forward, onward and into surprising successes and new supply coming into our lives. 

We accept divine blessings, grace, the prospering power of thankfulness and inner strength to persevere and believe nothing is really lost when we know no thing, no person or event can take away the unlimited source of gracious good inherent with us, that no experience or seeming loss can ever diminish or devalue. We are so grateful for this truth, Amen.