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| Suddenly the sunlight broke through the clouds and | | | | The point,I surmised, is not that things happen to me or |
| flooded the area with warmth and hope. Birds | | | | to others, but that things happen. It is for us to learn |
| appeared as if out of nowhere, and way off in the | | | | from what is happening and to know that it will not |
| distance, the arc of a rainbow emerged, then slowly | | | | continue forever.Life is a flowing river — a river |
| disappeared. I returned to the house to help the | | | | that’s always changing. All things change and |
| children prepare breakfast. | | | | today’s pauper could be tomorrow’s |
| A little later in the day, I drove around the neighborhood. | | | | prince,or today’s indifference could be |
| Trees were uprooted, power lines cut, and debris | | | | tomorrow’s mourning. Even the weather is an |
| scattered all over, but fortunately, no one was injured. | | | | indicator of the constancy of change. Last night and |
| Within a few days, most of these unfortunate | | | | this morning, heavy rains and gale force winds; now, |
| situations would be corrected. There would be a lot of | | | | beautiful sunlight and gentle breezes. There will always |
| complaining, and some who had sustained more | | | | be changes in the world, but something within me was |
| damage than others would look around and ask, | | | | saying that a part of me — a part of all of us |
| “Why me?” Every time I hear someone | | | | — is changeless and beyond the reach of |
| say that, I cringe. “Why me, Lord? Why not the | | | | storms. That part has been with us from time |
| other guy? Why did you let me lose my job or my | | | | immemorial, and in our quiet moments, if we listen |
| home or whatever?” How selfish we can be at | | | | carefully, we can hear it speaking to us. |
| times. Is it less terrible if it happens to someone else | | | | |