Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other. (William Faulkner)
For well over an hour I tread water in the adults-only side of the pool and feel temporarily invincible. The air is hot and the water cool as I kick and spread my arms over the water, no need to touch the bottom to feel safe. Of course I know this is play. My life is okay at the moment, with more ups than downs—not perfect. Few people live a utopian existence.
However, one simple thought about imperfection brings to mind some people who need a miracle, immediately. I can’t provide it. In fact, every time another bit of news about their particular situation arrives I find myself holding my breath, as if I were underwater; it doesn’t help. The facts don’t change. And truth is beyond my understanding. It is far larger than anything I can comprehend. I keep hoping that this is only their forty-years-in-the-desert portion of a glorious adventure in a grand new land. But, I don’t have any of the previews for tomorrow. I scarcely have all the information I need for my own agenda for the rest of the week.
I suspect many people have concerns about friends, family, that little old lady next door who seems to have experienced more than her share of disaster and sure doesn’t deserve it. Life isn’t fair, not a new notion.
All I can do is to continue to tread, in and out of the pool—and to love as fully as I can. Dragons can be beaten. Sometimes swords just make them angrier, but forgiveness and acceptance confuse the heck out of them. I guess you just need to know that particular dragon’s vulnerabilities or needs. And that is how the miracles come in. I pray for that kind of truth; when slaying dragons it’s the only kind of knowledge that counts.
terrypetersen 
I love your story, Terry! There is one thing on which I disagree: I believe that Life is fair because I believe that Life and God can’t be separated. I do understand that it doesn’t always look that way or feel that way. I believe we live in a vibrational Universe/God Energy which is flawless. Just saying. No worries. One thing I think we can agree on is that God Loves us very much! much love, Marcia
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Marcia, I believe that Life and God are intimately connected, and that even in the depths of despair, blessings are being planted; it is our job to find them. However, in the nitty-gritty aspects of choice and imperfect humanity, injustices appear. I can’t tell a mother who lost a child to heroine that all is well. Nor can I say that it is just fine that a young girl was raped and then blamed for it because Life and God will repair all. I prefer to listen to the tears of all, accept the unfairness of the moment, and then wait for the blossoming of something beautiful–after the harrowing, difficult time in each person’s desert. Perhaps we agree in the final destination; it’s in the delineation where we may have slightly different views. Peace and many blessings today.
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