It is raining today, such a rare occasion in Los Angeles that many of us enjoy the rain and are grateful. Think about the poor folks in Texas and New Mexico that haven’t seen much rain these past few years and are suffering. There are those of us that just see the rain as an inconvenience to their plans, spoiling their picnic, so to speak. Understandable; my oldest son is a bicycle messenger in downtown Los Angeles. Rain for him is not only miserable but potentially life threatening. The point is that it is all a matter of perspective, some things fall into the category of “makes me happy” and there are those things that fall into that other category. When my plans fall through, I can become quite frustrated, perhaps even angry. They say that God is laughing at our plans. Is God really that mean spirited, or does God perhaps have other plans for us, maybe even better. At least I am being set up to learn something. If I keep doing the same doing, feeling the same feeling, liking the same stuff and disliking that crap that I don’t like, what I am I really learning? If I am not learning, I am not living.
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