Water levels and sinking hearts
It’s breaking my heart that the floods in Queensland have left such devastation. Equally scary is that the rain has now moved south to Victoria and I fear for everyone who may be affected.
At the same time, I am thankful that everyone I know and my family is safe. When devastation like this hits, I am reminded or how precious human life is and that the things we own that we so often put so much value on, don’t mean a thing.
While watching the devastation through news reports on the telly, sitting comfortably on my sofa and sipping on clean water, I look around my home and how proud I am of our recent renovations. And I am quickly reminded that I should be thankful for the opportunity to sit there, to enjoy my life.
And the lesson I’ve learnt from this is: things aren’t as bad as our minds sometimes make them up to be. I’ll keep reminding myself of this as 2011 matures. When stress hits, when work is ridiculous and when I want to drink an entire bottle of wine in one sitting…
