There is another most excellent blogger, also named Kat (all these wonderful Kat-people!), who wrote the following reflection:
The images of the people and animals whose lives have been tossed around by the tsunami and its aftershocks continues to drift through my heart and mind. I know that feeling of utter hopelessness when everything you know is suddenly gone, but not in any degree comparable to what hundreds of thousands are going through right now. Nothing that I can do but send money and well wishes through the energy lines.
You can do that, too. When the situation arises in your mind, rather than go to the horror of it, the fear, opt out of sending out those emotions and instead send them good will and messages of: hang in there, help is on the way, you’ll make it through this, you are not alone.
We are all connected by these cords of energy that link everything and everyone. You can use those cords to help those in crisis to move away from the fear and into that place of quiet joy that is always with us, no matter what is occurring.
It’s so easy to get caught up in how we all want more, how so many of the things we want elude us. But we all live lives of unbelievable luxury, where a hot shower is a faucet turn away, and a dry night’s sleep is right there under the covers.
Tonight is a good night to feel the gratefulness for all that Life brings, to send out: thank you Life for always taking such good care of us, for always bringing us exactly what we need, and thank you for the things that you take away, even as we usually don’t understand the whys and what fors, and especially, thank you for our lives . . . thank you for our lives . . .
Indeed.